The Secret Doctrine by H. P.

Blavatsky

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The Secret Doctrine
THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY.

By H. P. Blavatsky

Blavatsky's masterwork on theosophy, covering cosmic, planetary, and human evolution, as well as science, religion, and mythology. Based on the Stanzas of Dzyan, with corroborating testimony from over 1,200 sources. Originally published 1888. Theosophical University Press electronic version ISBN 1-55700-124-3 (print version also available). Due to current limitations in the ASCII character set, and for easy in searching, no diacritical marks appear in this electronic version of the text. This edition was corrected against the facsimile edition of 1888. Obvious errors, such as missing letters, have been corrected; otherwise it follows the facsimile edition -- material not appearing there appears in double brackets [[ ]]. Hebrew characters are inserted as illustrations, but Greek text has been transliterated into italic Latin characters in double brackets. For further explanation of the conventions used, go to the Notes file.

STANZA VIII. -- EVOLUTION OF THE ANIMAL MAMMALIANS -- THE FIRST ... 180 WHAT MAY BE THE OBJECTIONS TO THE FOREGOING ... 185 STANZA IX. -- THE FINAL EVOLUTION OF MAN ... 191 EDENS, SERPENTS AND DRAGONS ... 202 THE SONS OF GOD AND THE SACRED ISLAND ... 220 STANZA X. -- THE HISTORY OF THE FOURTH RACE ... 227 ARCHAIC TEACHINGS IN THE PURANAS AND GENESIS ... 251 A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE EARLY RACES ... 263 STANZA X. -- Continued ... 271 ARE GIANTS A FICTION? ... 277 THE RACES WITH THE "THIRD EYE" ... 289 THE PRIMEVAL MANUS OF HUMANITY ... 307 STANZA XI. -- THE CIVILIZATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE FOURTH AND FIFTH RACES ... 316 CYCLOPEAN RUINS AND COLOSSAL STONES AS WITNESSES TO GIANTS ... 341 STANZA XII. -- THE FIFTH RACE AND ITS DIVINE INSTRUCTORS ... 351 The Origin of the Satanic Myth ... 378 Western Speculations founded on the Greek and Puranic Traditions ... 402 ADDITIONAL FRAGMENTS FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE VERSES OF STANZA XII. ... 423 CONCLUSION ... 437
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS.

ESOTERIC TENETS CORROBORATED IN EVERY SCRIPTURE ... 449 § XVI. ADAM-ADAMI ... 452 XVII. THE "HOLY OF HOLIES": ITS DEGRADATION ... 459 XVIII. ON THE MYTH OF THE "FALLEN ANGEL," IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS ... 475 The many meanings of the "War in Heaven" ... 492 XIX. IS PLEROMA SATAN'S LAIR? ... 506 XX. PROMETHEUS THE TITAN ... 519 XXI. ENOICHION-HENOCH ... 529 XXII. THE SYMBOLISM OF THE MYSTERY NAMES IAO AND JEHOVAH ... 536 XXIII. THE UPANISHADS IN GNOSTIC LITERATURE ... 563 XXIV. THE CROSS AND THE PYTHAGOREAN DECADE ... 573 XXV. THE MYSTERIES OF THE HEBDOMAD ... 590 The Septenary Element in the Vedas ... 605 The Seven Souls of the Egyptologists ... 630
BOOK II. -- PART III. ADDENDA. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED.

VI. GIANTS, CIVILIZATIONS, AND SUBMERGED CONTINENTS TRACED IN HISTORY ... 742 (a) Statements about the Sacred Islands ... 760 VII. SCIENTIFIC AND GEOLOGICAL PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF SEVERAL SUBMERGED CONTINENTS ... 778 Index (prepared by John P. Van Mater, on this site)

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This Work I Dedicate to all True Theosophists, In every Country, And of every Race, For they called it forth, and for them it was recorded.
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PREFACE. THE Author -- the writer, rather -- feels it necessary to apologise for the long delay which has occurred in the appearance of this work. It has been occasioned by ill-health and the magnitude of the undertaking. Even the two volumes now issued do not complete the scheme, and these do not treat exhaustively of the subjects dealt with in them. A large quantity of material has already been prepared, dealing with the history of occultism as contained in the lives of the great Adepts of the Aryan Race, and showing the bearing of occult philosophy upon the conduct of life, as it is and as it ought to be. Should the present volumes meet with a favourable reception, no effort will be spared to carry out the scheme of the work in its entirety. The third volume is entirely ready; the fourth almost so. This scheme, it must be added, was not in contemplation when the preparation of the work was first announced. As originally announced, it was intended that the "Secret Doctrine" should be an amended and enlarged version of "Isis Unveiled." It was, however, soon found that the explanations which could be added to those already put before the world in the last-named and other works dealing with esoteric science, were such as to require a different method of treatment: and consequently the present volumes do not contain, in all, twenty pages extracted from "Isis Unveiled." The author does not feel it necessary to ask the indulgence of her readers and critics for the many defects of literary style, and the imperfect English which may be found in these pages. She is a foreigner, and her knowledge of the language was acquired late in life. The English tongue is employed because it offers the most widely-diffused medium for conveying the truths which it had become her duty to place before the world. These truths are in no sense put forward as a revelation; nor does the author claim the position of a revealer of mystic lore, now made public for the first time in the world's history. For what is contained in this work is to be found scattered throughout thousands of volumes embodying the scriptures of the great Asiatic and early European religions, hidden under glyph and symbol, and hitherto left unnoticed because of this veil. What is now attempted is to gather the oldest tenets together and to
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The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky: Contents, Preface

make of them one harmonious and unbroken whole. The sole advantage which the writer has over her predecessors, is that she need not resort to personal speculations and theories. For this work is a partial statement of what she herself has been taught by more advanced students, supplemented, in a few details only, by the results of her

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own study and observation. The publication of many of the facts herein stated has been rendered necessary by the wild and fanciful speculations in which many Theosophists and students of mysticism have indulged, during the last few years, in their endeavour to, as they imagined, work out a complete system of thought from the few facts previously communicated to them. It is needless to explain that this book is not the Secret Doctrine in its entirety, but a select number of fragments of its fundamental tenets, special attention being paid to some facts which have been seized upon by various writers, and distorted out of all resemblance to the truth. But it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings, however fragmentary and incomplete, contained in these volumes, belong neither to the Hindu, the Zoroastrian, the Chaldean, nor the Egyptian religion,.neither to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism nor Christianity exclusively. The Secret Doctrine is the essence of all these. Sprung from it in their origins, the various religious schemes are now made to merge back into their original element, out of which every mystery and dogma has grown, developed, and become materialised. It is more than probable that the book will be regarded by a large section of the public as a romance of the wildest kind; for who has ever even heard of the book of Dzyan? The writer, therefore, is fully prepared to take all the responsibility for what is contained in this work, and even to face the charge of having invented the whole of it. That it has many shortcomings she is fully aware; all that she claims for it is that, romantic as it may seem to many, its logical coherence and consistency entitle this new Genesis to rank, at any rate, on a level with the "working hypotheses" so freely accepted by modern science. Further, it claims consideration, not by reason of any appeal to dogmatic authority, but because it closely adheres to Nature, and follows the laws of uniformity and analogy. The aim of this work may be thus stated: to show that Nature is not "a fortuitous concurrence of atoms," and to assign to man his rightful place in the scheme of the Universe; to rescue from degradation the archaic truths which are the basis of all religions; and to uncover, to some extent, the fundamental unity from which they all spring; finally, to show that the occult side of Nature has never been approached by the Science of modern civilization. If this is in any degree accomplished, the writer is content. It is written in the service of humanity, and by humanity and the future generations it must be judged. Its author recognises no inferior court of appeal. Abuse she is accustomed to; calumny she is daily acquainted with; at slander she smiles in
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. ------PAGE. INTRODUCTION ... xvii. The Need of such a Book ... xix. The Antiquity of Documents and MSS. ... xxiii. What the Book is intended to do ... xxviii. ------VOLUME FIRST. COSMOGENESIS.

PROEM ... 1 The Oldest MSS. in the world and its Symbolism ... 2 The One Life, Active and Passive ... 4 The Secret Doctrine -- Pantheism -- Atheism ... 6 "Space" in all Religions and in Occultism ... 9 Seven Cosmic Elements -- Seven Races of Mankind ... 12 The Three Postulates of the Secret Doctrine ... 14 Description of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan ... 20 ------BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION.

SEVEN STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN ... 27 ------STANZA I. -- THE NIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE... 35 The Seven Eternities ... 36 "Time" ... 37 The Universal Mind and the Dhyan Chohans ... 38 Nidana and Maya: The Causes of Misery ... 39 The Great Breath ... 43 Being and Non-Being ... 45 The Eye of Dangma ... 47 Alaya, the Universal Soul ... 49

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STANZA II. -- THE IDEA OF DIFFERENTIATION ... 53 The Absolute knows Itself not ... 55 The Germ of Life was not yet ... 57 The Universe was still concealed in the Divine Thought ... 61 ------STANZA III. -- THE AWAKENING OF KOSMOS ... 62 The Great Vibration ... 63 Nature's Symbols ... 65 The Power of Numbers ... 67 The Logoi and the Dragon ... 73 The Astral Light ... 75 Primeval Radiations from Unity ... 79 The Web of Being ... 83 Conscious Electricity: Fohat ... 85 ------STANZA IV. -- THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 86 The Sons of the Fire ... 86 The Vehicle of the Universe -- the Dhyan Chohans ... 89
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The Army of the Voice ... 93 Speech and Mind ... 95 The Ogdoad and the Heptad ... 99 The Stellar "Sons of Light" ... 103 ------STANZA V. -- FOHAT: THE CHILD OF THE SEPTENARY HIERARCHIES ... 106 The Fiery Whirlwind and the Primordial Seven ... 106 They Produce Fohat ... 108 The Correlation of the "Gods" ... 113 Evolution of the "Principles" of Nature ... 119 The Mystery of the Fire ... 121 The Secret of the Elements ... 123 The Square of the Tabernacle ... 125 The Planetary Spirits and the Lipika ... 129 The Ring "Pass Not" ... 130 The Sidereal Book of Life ... 131 The Soul's Pilgrimage and its "Rest" ... 134 ------STANZA VI. -- OUR WORLD, ITS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ... 136 The Logos ... 136 Mystery of the Female Logos ... 137

Copies and Originals... 393 The Moon Bi-sexual ... 397 ------X. TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP ... 403 Degeneration of the Symbol ... 405 The Seven-headed Dragons ... 407 Dragon and Crocodile ... 409 ------XI. DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS ... 411 Death is Life ... 413 The Fall of the Angels ... 418 Transformation of the Legend ... 421 ------XII. THE THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS ... 424 The Point within the Circle ... 426 The Logos or Verbum ... 429 The Factors of Creation ... 432 Identity of the Hierarchies in all Religions ... 438 Difference between the Aryan and Semitic Systems ... 444

PRELIMINARY NOTES. On the Archaic Stanzas, and the Four Prehistoric Continents ... 1 The Imperishable Sacred Land ... 6 The Hyperborean ... 7 Lemuria ... 7 Atlantis ... 8 The Tropics at the Pole ... 11
BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS.

STANZAS FROM THE BOOK OF DZYAN . . . 15 ------THE BEGINNINGS OF SENTIENT LIVE ... 22 Man, the Third Logos ... 25 The Celestial Governors of Humanity ... 29 Parent Stars and Sister Planets ... 33 Three Kinds of Light ... 35 The Numbers of Creation ... 39 The First War in Heaven ... 45

raise but a small corner of the dark veil. the Buddha. presented in Mr. not even the greatest living adept. though giving out many fundamental tenets from the SECRET DOCTRINE of the East. rather than their meaning.05. enlarged and explained in the present volumes. Blavatsky. though it meant no more than does the title of this work. that which has been so effectually concealed from it for long aeons and ages. nor did it contain the religion of Buddha. It has enabled our enemies to find an effective weapon against theosophy. having become a habit -.The Secret Doctrine by H. while Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill. because. as an eminent Pali scholar very pointedly expressed it. the "SECRET DOCTRINE. or could -. The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias.
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INTRODUCTORY. but simply a few tenets from a hitherto hidden teaching which are now supplemented by many more. For no one.Vol. had ceased to be esoteric from the moment they were made public. This is said with reference to the prevailing double mistake (a) of limiting Theosophy to Buddhism: and (b) of confounding the tenets of the religious philosophy preached by Gautama.
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as to allow of the term being applied to mortals and finally appropriated to one whose unparalleled virtues and knowledge caused him to
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[[Vol. neither I nor any other European living. Moreover. even before Isis Unveiled was published. and by common consent both pronounced and written "Budhism. and an appellation given by the earliest Aryans to the Unknown deity. and "Adi-bhuta" is translated "the primeval uncreated cause of all" by Fitzedward Hall. privilege of being a European. and its votaries "Buddhaists." Nor is the latter term correctly spelt and pronounced. the first was a Hungarian Initiate. S. the second an Egyptian. to two Europeans and to my colleague. This error must have crept in through inadvertence. "Wisdom. in English. though the statement was made in "Esoteric Buddhism" (Preface to the original Edition) that "two years ago (i. rather equivocal. Buddhaism. Introductory (vol 1)
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.) To avoid this deplorable misnomer was easy. It means the absolute Wisdom. Olcott. knew the alphabet of the Science.and Budha. we did our best to correct the mistake. Colonel Olcott has given out some of this teaching in various ways." instead of "Buddhism. 1." This has to be laid directly at the door of those who. by birth and education. It is above everything important to keep in mind that no theosophical book acquires the least additional value from pretended authority. it has been simply because they were not allowed: their time for public work having not yet come. however. (See Theosophist.theosociety. having been the first to bring the subject under public notice. protests were raised by Brahmins and others against the title.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. and that I was entirely unaware of the manner in which the author intended to spell the word "Budh-ism." or knowledge (Vidya). the faculty of cognizing. and Adhi Budha.many years before it became her duty (in 1880) to impart a small portion of the Secret Doctrine to two European gentlemen. As permitted. 1883). if the other two have not. AEons of untold duration must have elapsed. the word "Brahma" not being found in the Vedas and the early works. and. one of whom was the author of "Esoteric Buddhism". 1883. June.

Moreover." the mystery of Being outside our terrestrial sphere. simply because the name
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. during which the subject reaches the culmination of spiritual knowledge." Bodha means the innate possession of divine intellect or "understanding". in their blind and. Esoteric philosophy reconciles all religions. "When Buddhi absorbs our EGOtism (destroys it) with all its Vikaras. Furthermore.grand as they appear to one unacquainted with the tenets of the Wisdom Religion of antiquity -. by re-action. to Ethics and MAN alone. now become in modern Chinese and Tibetan phonetics ch'an." deny its esoteric teachings (which are those also of the Brahmins). "divine conscience" also. Esoteric philosophy has never rejected God in Nature." the discernment of good and evil. and Buddhistic occultism occupies therein only its legitimate place. are noxious doctrines. The latter received their Initiation at the famous Saptaparna cave (the Sattapanni of Mahavansa) near Mount Baibhar (the Webhara of the Pali MSS. the secret portions of the "Dan" or Jan-na"* ("Dhyan") of Gautama's metaphysics -. Indeed. The Hindu Reformer limited his public teachings to the purely moral and physiological aspect of the Wisdom Religion." the acquirement of it by personal efforts and merit.e. For the Esoteric philosophy is alone calculated to withstand. "Bodhi" is likewise the name of a particular state of trance condition. This cave was in Rajagriha. or Mukti. Unwise is the correct term to use in their case. Introductory (vol 1)
receive the title of the "Buddha of Wisdom unmoved. and was the Cheta cave of Fa-hian." "Mukti" being the same as Nirvana. as rightly suspected by some archaeologists. nor Deity as the absolute and abstract Ens. "Buddha. the records we mean to place before the reader embrace the esoteric tenets of the whole world since the beginning of our humanity. Page]] xx INTRODUCTORY. a blasphemous and sorry caricature of the Ever Unknowable. and their literature. Blavatsky. in this age of crass and illogical materialism. It denies Deity no more than it does the Sun. the word Janna is defined as "to reform one's self
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suggests what to them. In the old books. The true philosopher. entirely loses sight of personalities. is the general term for the esoteric schools. and no more. is reached. called Samadhi. the student of the Esoteric Wisdom. It only refuses to accept any of the gods of the so-called monotheistic religions. and shows the root of each to be identical with that of every other great religion. It proves the necessity of an absolute Divine Principle in nature. while Buddhi is the faculty of cognizing the channel through which divine knowledge reaches the "Ego.htm (3 von 24) [06. Unwise are those who. in his inner spiritual life. the great Teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures.are but a very small portion of the whole.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.). freedom from the trammels of "Maya" or illusion. P. Avalokiteshvara becomes manifested to us. gods created by man in his own image and likeness. of "Budhism. in our age. untimely hatred of Buddhism. dogmatic beliefs and special religions." which is the vehicle of Atma. strips every one of its outward. Things "unseen and incorporeal. human garments.. as Monotheists.05. and. and "Spiritual Soul. 1.theosociety. reserving the hidden Truths for a select circle of his Arhats. i. the repeated attacks on all and everything man holds most dear and sacred. and Nirvana.The Secret Doctrine by H.** Time and human imagination made short work of the purity and philo[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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e. His teachings. Unable to teach all that had been imparted to him -. a distinct class of literature appeared in the world.) Many Chinese scholars among Orientalists have heard of the "Soul Doctrine. Egyptian. the "Book of Dzyan. Beglor. however.
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.e. differed in no wise from that of the initiated Brahmins of his day. the chief engineer at Buddhagaya.though he taught a philosophy built upon the ground-work of the true esoteric knowledge. and other ancient religions. we believe. was the first. Introductory (vol 1)
by meditation and knowledge. 1.. by declaring that Nirvana meant absolute annihilation. Hence Dzan.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. Being based. Japan. which became with every year more defined in its tendency. i. Page]] xxii INTRODUCTORY.htm (4 von 24) [06." a second inner birth. Thus the reader is asked to bear in mind the very important difference between orthodox Buddhism -i.has so tried and irritated the curiosity of those scholars who have studied it. Toward the end of the first quarter of this century." ** Mr. (See also Volume II. left to the care of uninitiated Lamas and Mongolian innovators. once they were transferred into China. a Kshatrya and a disciple of the "twice born" (the initiated Brahmins) or Dwijas..too secretly. P. Page]] xxi INTRODUCTORY. Djan phonetically. the public teachings of Gautama the Buddha. but even in not a few schools in Thibet. The mystery that shrouded its chief dogma and aspirations -. Works. and a distinguished archaeologist. for the whole Buddhist reform merely consisted in giving out a portion of that which had been kept secret from every man outside of the "enchanted" circle of Temple-Initiates and ascetics. The Buddha was a child of the Aryan soil. Hindu.
yield. Blavatsky. during the course of their work of proselytism.theosociety. and emblems were made to yield anything the symbologist wanted them to
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sophy of these teachings. myths. could not be different from their doctrines. and his esoteric Budhism. that. the Buddha gave to the world only its outward material body and kept its soul for his Elect. most remarkable for their ingenious deductions and speculations. How the pristine purity of these grand revelations was dealt with may be seen in studying some of the so-called "esoteric" Buddhist schools of antiquity in their modern garb. into a soil less prepared for metaphysical conceptions than India. a born Hindu. His Secret Doctrine.

is rapidly progressing on the reverse.claim to have in their possession the sum total of sacred and philosophical works in MSS. That soul becomes with every new generation more paralyzed and atrophied.htm (5 von 24) [06. The world of to-day. spoken of by Greeley.others still awaiting their turn. the chief work -.a necropolis. but to the students of Occultism. why the outline of a few fundamental truths from the Secret Doctrine of the Archaic ages is now permitted to see the light. when "Isis Unveiled. But. in whatever language or characters. if a great portion of the Sanskrit. and.The Secret Doctrine by H. withal. after long millenniums of the most profound silence and secrecy. some already translated -. Page]] xxiii INTRODUCTORY. perhaps. A few new facts (new to the profane Orientalist. has an opportunity of verifying the statements herein made. Chinese. have hitherto been transmitted orally: yet even those are in every instance hinted at in the almost countless volumes of Brahminical. as usual.2003 03:30:27]
. and each contradicting the other. were published. and whatsoever is in store for the writer through malevolent criticism. It has now become a vast arena -. Tibet. wherein lie buried the highest and the most holy aspirations of our Spirit-Soul. Every scholar..a true valley of discord and of eternal strife -. The members of several esoteric schools -. I say "a few truths.theosociety. and whose ramifications may be found in China. nor could it be imparted to the present generation of Sadducees. and of checking most of the quotations. Chinese and Tibetan temple-literature. -. in fact. and type: all the works. because that which must remain unsaid could not be contained in a hundred such volumes. material plane of spirituality. or at any rate was never heard of by them under its present name. only) and passages quoted from the Commentaries will be found difficult to trace. However it may be. over-flooding the libraries with dissertations rather on phallic and sexual worship than on real symbology. besides South America -. The main body of the Doctrines given is found scattered throughout hundreds and thousands of Sanskrit MSS. The Book of Dzyan (or "Dzan") is utterly unknown to our Philologists. The "amiable infidels and accomplished profligates" of Society. therefore.05. care little for the revival of the dead sciences of the past.which it is too ready to confound with the unknowable. whenever the problem eludes the grasp of the physicist -. India. P. Blavatsky. 1. and Mongolian works quoted in the present volumes are known to some Orientalists. in its mad career towards the unknown -. This is. that have ever been written." or even the later attempts to explain the mysteries of esoteric science. This is the true reason. and now much more than ten years ago. and even in Syria. appeared rapidly in succession.that one from which the Stanzas are given -is not in the possession of European Libraries. Several of the teachings. the most serious objection to the correctness and reliability of the whole work will be the preliminary STANZAS: "How can the statements contained in them be verified?" True. and to every genuine Occultist. since
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generally changing places with premisses as in the syllogisms of more than one Sanskrit and Pali scholar.
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cut in the rock. displeased at the Emperor's sinful prying into the religions of the infidels. .* It is maintained. It has been claimed in all ages that ever since the destruction of the Alexandrian Library (see Isis Unveiled. whose soil no European foot has ever trodden so far. Page]] xxiv INTRODUCTORY. P. in the solitary passes of Kuen-lun** there are several such hiding places. and who have no end of revealed books) .
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[[Vol. with one old lama. But then. furthermore. Whether Europe has the complete text is very doubtful. diligently searched for. there exists a certain hamlet. moreover. Along the ridge of Altyn-Toga. after having been carefully copied in cryptographic characters. In India. Beyond the Western Tsay-dam. that every sacred book of that kind. living near by to watch it. Pilgrims say that the subterranean galleries and halls under it contain a collection of books.. p. a hamlet rather than a monastery. is too large to find room even in the British Museum." p. themselves helped the Brahmans to conceal their MSS. It is added. During Akbar's reign. and the future may have very disagreeable surprises in store for the Orientalists. such as to defy the art of the best and cleverest palaeographer. Vol. was also destroyed to the last copy.htm (6 von 24) [06.*** All this is very likely to provoke a smile of doubt. so numerous they are. that once found. every work of a character that might have led the profane to the ultimate discovery and comprehension of some of the mysteries of the Secret Science. It is a small cluster of houses. by those who know. with a poor-looking temple in it. 1. some fanatical courtiers. . according to the accounts given.* Moreover in all the large and wealthy lamasaries.The Secret Doctrine by H. was. Such was Badaoni.05. the last of the precious manuscripts were secured and hidden during the reign of the Emperor Akbar. lost in a deep gorge. owing to the combined efforts of the members of the Brotherhoods. the number of which.2003 03:30:27]
. 23). 27). whose text was not sufficiently veiled in symbolism. or which had any
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the art of writing began.theosociety. save three copies left and stored safely away. before
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* Badaoni wrote in his Muntakhab at Tawarikh: "His Majesty relished inquiries into the sects of these infidels (who cannot be counted. whenever the gonpa and the lhakhang are situated in the mountains. Blavatsky. there are subterranean crypts and cave-libraries.
direct references to the ancient mysteries. such works were all destroyed.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. who had an undisguised horror for Akbar's mania for idolatrous religions. from the ideographic hieroglyphs down to the alphabet of Cadmus and the Devanagari. Max Muller shows that no bribes or threats of Akbar could extort from the Brahmans the original text of the Veda. a hermit.

Julien had to consult more than sixty commentators for the purpose of his translation. the "Tao-te-King. hardly a dozen of pages.theosociety. and their very names would have been obliterated from human memory. His great work. as Stanislas Julien shows. yet Professor Max Muller finds that "the text is unintelligible without commentaries. and human perfection. are now to be found no more. the predecessor of Confucius. as we see." (Ain i Akbari. or the heavens were to tear asunder. Were they works of no importance they might. Blavatsky. the heart of his doctrine. and even printed works known to have existed. incalculable number of MSS." This work "was kept secret. One such. Blochmann. and was not published till the reign of Jahangir. in spiritual power. Such are. in the natural course of time.2003 03:30:27]
. the works of Lao-tse. has in it. among whom are now to be found the most learned of the priests and followers of Lao-tse. only "about 5. simply laugh at the blunders and hypotheses of the European Chinese scholars.
[[Vol.. p. 104. as now ascertained. P. But it is not so. 1. During the four centuries and a half that preceded this earliest of the commentators there was ample time to veil the true Lao-tse doctrine from all but his initiated priests. and reach a high degree in their knowledge of the future. one thousand in all. The same tradition speaks of immense subterranean abodes. note. and especially the labours of late years of the students of comparative Philology and the Science of Religions have led them to ascertain as follows: An immense. for.a true wilderness in the heart of Turkestan -. hardly a few verdant oases relieve its dead solitude. Western Tibet. Page]] xxv INTRODUCTORY. but is often visited by Mongolians and Buddhists. They have disappeared without leaving the slightest trace behind them. translated by Dr.) ** Karakorum mountains.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in..htm (7 von 24) [06. belongs to no one. The collective researches of the Orientalists. p. for instance. sprung on the sepulchre of a vast city swallowed by and buried under the sandy soil of the desert. on physical and religious sciences. without those additional volumes of Commentaries and explanations.000 words" (Tao-te-King.The Secret Doctrine by H. have been left to perish. and inculcated their doctrines so firmly that no man could now raise a doubt in his Majesty even if mountains were to crumble to dust.
the reader rejects the truthfulness of the reports." the earliest going back as far as the year 163 B." or the sacred scriptures of the Taosse. At present. have long since disappeared from the eyes of the profane. *** According to the same tradition the now desolate regions of the waterless land of Tarim -.). for the greater portion of their readers.C. The Japanese.were in the days of old covered with flourishing and wealthy cities. not earlier. It may be an idle rumour. Introductory (vol 1)
As they (the Sramana and Brahmins) surpass other learned men in their treatises on morals. of large corridors filled with tiles and cylinders.
http://www. however. most of them contained the true keys to works still extant. xxvii. and tradition affirms that the commentaries to which our Western Sinologues have access are not the real occult records.* He is said to have written 930 books on Ethics and religions. as well as almost all the texts. let him pause and reflect over the following well known facts. and entirely incomprehensible.05. but intentional veils. and that the true commentaries. they brought proofs based on reason and testimony. so that Mr. and it may be an actual fact. and seventy on magic.

For what is the history of this treatise on the once grand religion of Babylon? Written in Greek by Berosus. a historian of the fifth century.almost of identity -. For they passed through the hands of his Reverence the Bishop of Caesarea -. thanks to this Armenian forger.000 years. Is it likely. Blavatsky. as a very learned member of that body. if not the fountain-head of the Mosaic Bible. for Alexander the Great. P. that he dealt more tenderly with the Chaldean records. and covering a period of 200. from the astronomical and chronological records preserved by the priests of that temple. and which. we find that the religion of Confucius is founded on the Five King and the Four Shu-books. both denounce him as the most daring and desperate forger. said to be by Berosus. have misled all the civilized nations for over 1. Eusebius used these extracts in writing his Chronicon (270-340 A. which were already menacing the new religion." (Lectures on the "Science of Religion.that self-constituted censor and editor of the sacred records of other men's religions -. it is now lost. so rashly accepted?
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If one turns to the ancient literature of the Semitic religions." p. what now remains? -.500 years into accepting Jewish derivations for direct Divine Revelation!
http://www. And Socrates. In the first century B. Page]] xxvi INTRODUCTORY. without which even the most learned scholars would not venture to fathom the depth of their sacred canon. even as a clue to the character of what has disappeared.theosociety. to justify the tradition of their splendid and eminently occult literature.
[[Vol. in Paris. a priest of the temple of Belus.The Secret Doctrine by H. 185.).and they doubtless bear to this day the mark of his eminently veracious and trustworthy hand. complained in 1881. Alexander Polyhistor made a series of extracts from it -.also lost. the elder sister and instructress.only a few fragments. vice-patriarch of Constantinople (eighth century).2003 03:30:27]
.05.C.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. These. Introductory (vol 1)
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* "If we turn to China. in his role of defender and champion of the new faith which had adopted the Jewish Scriptures. what do the scholars find? To perpetuate the memory of the ancient religions of Babylon. and with them an absurd chronology. to the Chaldean Scriptures. The points of resemblance -. to record the vast cycle of astronomical observations of the Chaldean Magi. in themselves of considerable extent and surrounded by voluminous Commentaries. Max Muller. then. It is pretty certain that Eusebius did not spare the Egyptian Synchronistic tables of Manetho -. 1.between the Jewish and the Chaldean Scriptures.so much so that Bunsen** charges him with mutilating history most unscrupulously.* made the latter most dangerous to Eusebius. however.htm (8 von 24) [06. the basis and starting-point of Christianity. through the discoveries made by George Smith (vide his "Chaldean account of Genesis").D. are almost valueless. and Syncellus.

for the purpose of justifying the dogmas of their several schools." p.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.000 or 84. and may throw a great light on the true origin of the Fallen Angels. exclusive of treatises and commentaries.2003 03:30:27]
. "The Legends and Theories of the Buddhists. Page]] xxvii INTRODUCTORY." the professor tells his audiences. 66. following strictly in this the data furnished by the said Orientalists themselves. then. these "325 volumes" (in reality there are 333. both of the South and of the North..htm (9 von 24) [06. Had it been
http://www." p. ** "Buddhism in Tibet.
upon Buddha or his "Good Law. "five or six times the amount of the matter contained in the Bible. or 1. although the Rig-Veda contains only "about 10. Why is this so? Evidently because the Brahmanas.000 tracts. each volume we are told. it is not understood correctly to this day. rejoicing only in 3. 200
[[Vol.000 letters in the Saddharma alankara. instead of supplying us with correct versions. p. Yet."** Moreover. 78. "according to a tradition preserved by the Buddhist schools.
So that.368.180 letters.The Secret Doctrine by H. which the Orientalists have failed to secure. with the exception of these more than doubtful fragments.theosociety. II. and Tanjur 225 volumes)." vol. in truth.028 hymns. What do the scholars say of Buddhist literature? Have they got it in its completeness? Assuredly not. Notwithstanding the 325 volumes of the Kanjur and the Tanjur of the Northern Buddhists. is known of Lamaism. the student will find. Turning now to the oldest Aryan literature. in the words of Professor Max Muller. of Vol. Kanjur comprising 108." the loss of nearly 76.
[[Vol. that.000 tracts does seem miraculous. Page]] xxviii INTRODUCTORY.* or. have interwoven them with their own commentaries." nothing. personified by Bel and the Dragon.567. the sacred canon of the Southern Church is said to contain 29. "weighing from four to five pounds." in spite of the Brahmanas and the mass of glosses and commentaries. "Lost" as usual for Europeans. i. but most of them were lost. Blavatsky. Notwithstanding.580 verses.000. the entire Chaldean sacred literature has disappeared from the eyes of the profane as completely as the lost Atlantis. the Rig-Veda." the latter.05. A few facts that were contained in the Berosian History are given in Part II. the sacred Buddhist Canon comprised originally 80. "the translators. so that there remained but 6. Introductory (vol 1)
** Bunsen's "Egypt's Place in History. 1. 1. P." themselves require a key. "the scholastic and oldest treatises on the primitive hymns. But who can be quite sure that they are likewise lost for Buddhists and Brahmins? Considering the sacredness for the Buddhists of every line written
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II. the mainspring of the religion of Egypt and the original intention of its ceremonial worship are far from being fully disclosed to us.** when Kashyapa. a common Semitic religion before the separation of the Semitic race. . thanks to the numerous records of the Egyptian theogony and mysteries preserved in the classics. . The learned Oxford philologist himself confesses the truth by saying that "Though . Blavatsky. p.D. ** Reverend T. which seem to defy the ravages of time.072) shows a Buddhist monastery erected in the Kailas range in 137 B. They do not seem to allow for one moment the possibility that the texts may be lost only for West and for themselves. But as it is well ascertained that Buddhist Arhats began their religious exodus. we see still standing the Pyramids. thus refusing to deliver them to the profanation and misuse of races even so "vastly superior" to themselves. . as early as the year 300 before our era. On rolls of papyrus. ("Ind. 1. .. Althersumkunde" Vol. than the too abstruse philosophies and Pantheism of India. and.
covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions. and with the strange pictures of gods and goddesses. Nevertheless. but the keys by which alone they become intelligible have disappeared. of whose religion and language Europe had hardly any idea before the beginning of the present century. 1. Still it is not so.htm (10 von 24) [06.2003 03:30:27]
. their walls
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vice versa. every one acquainted with the natural course of events would subscribe to the statement that. One would imagine that. though much has been deciphered in the ancient records of that mysterious race. five or six thousand treatises might have been destroyed during the persecutions in.theosociety.The Secret Doctrine by H.* and reached China in the year 61 A."
[[Vol. and emigrations from. we have even fragments of what may be called the sacred books of the Egyptians. yet.C. went there to acquaint the "Son of Heaven" with the tenets of Buddhism. and (b) that such lack of data does not prevent them in the least from dogmatising. . or. it does seem strange to hear the Orientalists speaking of such a loss as though it were really possible. and in a number of ancient writers. . earlier than that."* Here again the mysterious hieroglyphic documents remain. secondly. Along the Nile and on the face of the whole country. and a common Turanian religion before the
http://www. . at any rate. and General Cunningham. "Chinese Buddhism.000. at the invitation of the Emperor Ming-ti. . exhumed yearly and daily. having found that "there is a natural connection between language and religion". and the ruins of temples and labyrinths. that there was a common Aryan religion before the separation of the Aryan race. Owing to the expressed regrets and numerous confessions of almost every one of the Orientalists (See Max Muller's Lectures for example) the public may feel sufficiently sure (a) that the students of ancient religions have indeed very few data upon which to build such final conclusions as they generally do about the old religions. for the purpose of propagating the new faith beyond Kashmir and the Himalayas.05. Page]] xxix INTRODUCTORY. the rites and dogmas of Pharaonic Egypt ought to be well understood at least. of these 76. Edkins. there stand to this hour. fresh relics which eloquently tell their own history. better. . P. that the Asiatic people should have the unparalleled boldness to keep their most sacred records out of the reach of foreigners.

" were entirely wrong. The conflicting views on the subject of chronology. he has not the slightest "historical basis" for it. having. P. No doubt. granted to the ancestors of the whole race of mankind . "that there was a primeval preternatural revelation granted to the fathers of the human race. . that those learned writers. in the Himalayas. of the various eminent philologists and Orientalists. His answer was suggestive. Theol. the late Swami Dayanand Sarasvati. p. but yet very wide of the mark of actual truth. "internal evidence" being very often a jack-o'lantern. only discovered "three ancient centres of religion" and "three centres of language. has turned out. instead of a safe beacon to follow. The mummy of what had been considered the wife of an unimportant Pharaoh. no philologist. preserved in the temples of Greece and Italy." in the sight of Oriental scholars. which may be very "scientific.05.The Secret Doctrine by H. Introductory (vol 1)
separation of the Chinese and the other tribes belonging to the Turanian class. the eminent Orientalist has proved thoroughly to the world's satisfaction. Cairo. are an evident proof that the statement has no historical basis to stand upon.theosociety. that according to Grimm's law of phonetic rules. Moksh Mooller. from Martin Haug down to Mr. . one of that kind was discovered at Boulaq. in fact..2003 03:30:27]
. . he takes the opportunity of saying in the same breath that Odin "was worshipped as the supreme deity during a period long anterior to the age of the Veda and of Homer" (Compar. When told that Professor Max Muller had declared to the audiences of his "Lectures" that the theory . Only a year or two since. Nor has the Science of modern Comparative Mythology any better proof to show. thanks to an inscription found on an amulet hung on his neck. While a prominent Cinghalese priest assured the writer that it was well known that the most important Buddhist tracts belonging to the sacred canon were stored away in countries and places inaccessible to the European pundits. . Page]] xxx INTRODUCTORY. 318). who have insisted for the last century or so that there must have been "fragments of a primeval revelation. the greatest Sanskritist of his day in India. assured some members of the Theosophical Society of the same fact with regard to ancient Brahmanical works.the greatest King of Egypt!
[[Vol. finds but few supporters at present. Max Muller himself. He makes history and fact subservient to his
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* So little acquainted are our greatest Egyptologists with the funerary rites of the Egyptians and the outward marks of the difference of sexes made on the mummies. where he would soon find out that what crossed the Kalapani (the black waters of the
http://www. . were a Brahmin. as of their origin. and came with me. the professor does not hesitate to declare "that a truly historical basis for a scientific treatment of those principal religions of the world has been gained!" A "scientific treatment" of a subject is no guarantee for its "historical basis". to be that of Sesostris -. For this is what all the Eastern Initiates and Pundits have been proclaiming to the world from time to time. however.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.htm (11 von 24) [06. "If Mr. is justified in giving out his own conclusions for historical facts. I might take him to a gupta cave (a secret crypt) near Okhee Math. in the case of the Vedas. even among the most eminent. and with such scarcity of data on hand. 1. Odin and Buddha are two different personages. When. Blavatsky.the holy and learned man laughed." and though as entirely ignorant of those primitive religions and languages. as he pronounced the name. .
own conclusions. quite distinct from each other. that it has led to the most ludicrous mistakes." -. and he has shown it scientifically.

etc. of all that the Pundits of Col. But all such proofs must lose their value. the latter being mutilated later on by Eusebius. from her origin. As to the Chaldeans. Res. do not at all interfere with the conclusions to which one who studies the Secret Doctrine must unavoidably come. Vol. 272).. the seat of Sanskrit and Brahman learning.The Secret Doctrine by H. pp. and later on to the sorrow. he would say no more.2003 03:30:27]
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in that affair than the Missionaries and Colonel Wilford themselves. because their Brahma. though the Mlechchhas will of course have to wait. 1. for the benefit. Introductory (vol 1)
ocean) from India to Europe were only the bits of rejected copies of some passages from our sacred books. Max Muller. Vishnu and Mahesa were no other than the Christian trinity. The former. were silly enough to maintain that "the Hindus were even now almost Christians. I. What it is everyone knows. This relates to the clever forgery (on leaves inserted in old Puranic MSS. they assuredly got their primitive learning from the Brahmans. For. Wilford.theosociety. has now created an evident necessity and desire in the Orientalists to declare nearly every archaic Sanskrit manuscript so modern as to give to the missionaries full justification for availing themselves of the opportunity. nor will it ever be lost to the world.05."* It was a good lesson. of Col. in its reaction." and it still exists. in 1880. on the testimony of Sir William Jones himself (see Asiat. P. Blavatsky. Vans Kennedy has long since justly declared that Babylonia was. the pendulum of foregone conclusions to swing too much the other way.. by the Brahmins upon Colonel Wilford and Sir William Jones was a cruel one. Page]] xxxi INTRODUCTORY. if the results show that neither the New nor even the Old Testament borrowed anything from the more ancient religion of the Brahmans and Buddhists. for Rawlinson shows an undeniably Vedic influence in the early mythology of Babylon. Noah and his three sons. p. it does not follow that the Jews have not borrowed all they knew from the Chaldean records. But it had been well deserved. No doubt the mystification played. and no one was more to be blamed
[[Vol. and Col. There was a "primeval revelation. and caused. in the last century at Calcutta.htm (12 von 24) [06.). is shown by the absurd attempts of late to prove that the whole Puranic story about Chrishna was plagiarized by the Brahmins from the Bible! But the facts cited by the Oxford Professor in his Lectures on the "Science of Religion." concerning the now famous interpolations. That they do so and to the full extent of their mental powers. Wilford had heard from him about Adam and Abraham.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in." made for Colonel Wilford. For "that first supply on the Brahmanical market.. It made the Oriental scholars doubly cautious. but perchance it has also made some of them too shy. etc
http://www. This was at Meerut. in correct and archaic Sanskrit. in the presence of the latest theory worked out by Prof. but will reappear." Questioned further on this point. 288 and 296 et seq." Lecture On False Analogies in comparative Theology.

some 3. is surrounded with the ruins of archaic towns and cities in every direction.htm (13 von 24) [06. even the knowledge of writing is refused to some of the most ancient nations.
"Not a pool.000 human beings represent the relics of about a hundred extinct nations and races -. has "laid down his code of phonetic laws.05. An anthropologist would feel more than embarrassed to class. the subterranean stores are secure. 1. and as their entrances are concealed in such oases. the more so. The gigantic. not a bush. as the mounds of shifting sand. are still to be found. and they are credited with barbarism instead of culture.theosociety. . also Maya. for Mary is Mare. And how can there be civilization without a literature. even should several armies invade the sandy wastes where --
[[Vol. Page]] xxxiii INTRODUCTORY. and the sterile and now dead soil of the immense central plains of the basin of Tarim testify. Hurricanes may "tear up the sands and sweep whole plains away. Among these verdant oases there are some which are entirely inaccessible even to the native profane traveller. Within those table-lands of sand there is water. was Maia. Thus.000 feet above the level of the river Tchertchen-D'arya. it is a bold step for our Orientalists to take. dry desert. divide and subdivide them. When questioned about their
http://www. And the mountain-range forms a rugged screen Round the parch'd flats of the dry. The Eastern and Central portions of those regions -. There. The oasis of Tchertchen.the Nan-Schayn and the Altyne-taga -. even in Central Asia. when the same proofs of ancient civilization are found even in comparatively populated regions of the same country. there is little fear that any one should discover them. for instance." In their efforts to collect together the many skeins of unwritten history. Thot-Hermes. the Sea. unbroken wall of the mountains that hem in the whole table-land of Tibet.
the gods of many nations. since those cities breathed their last. situated about 4. Page]] xxxii INTRODUCTORY. P." they are powerless to destroy that which is beyond their reach. nor can they have any. the great illusion symbolically) -. Blavatsky. without annals or chronicles? Common sense alone ought to supplement the broken links in the history of departed nations. and the mother of Jesus. . 1. as if they had fallen from the moon. likewise Maya (illusion. . though the Mother of Mercury (Budha. as the respective descendants of all these antediluvian races and tribes know as little of their own forefathers themselves. wherein no European foot has ever yet ventured." But there is no need to send the reader across the desert. This civilization is undeniably prehistoric. from the upper course of the river Khuan-Khe down to the Kara-Korum hills. Built deep in the bowels of the earth. in some form. and would have strange secrets to tell mankind.The Secret Doctrine by H. or trodden the now treacherous soil. Introductory (vol 1)
[[Vol. and fresh oases are found blooming there. The borderlands alone are superficially known to the traveller.). while new discoveries are daily made of great arts and sciences having existed far back in the night of time. etc.were once upon a time covered with cities that could well vie with Babylon. . a priori. witnessed a civilization during millenniums of years.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. since Bopp. the mother of Buddha (Gautama). not a house is seen. everything that does not dovetail with their special conclusions. Yet the traces of an immense civilization. Thus.yet these three characters have no connection.2003 03:30:27]
. to deny.the very names of which are now unknown to our ethnologists. A whole geological period has swept over the land.

The Secret Doctrine by H. according to local tradition. yet in view of the teachings of the Secret Doctrine. also. A vault was found with twelve dead men sitting in it. the tradition in India that the real secret commentaries which alone make the Veda intelligible. give us the right to credit other legendary lore warranted by well educated and learned natives of India and Mongolia. . when they speak of immense libraries reclaimed from the sand. the famous traveller adds that all along their way on the river Tchertchen they heard legends about twenty-three towns buried ages ago by the shifting sands of the deserts.) To this. and the other by the Mongolians in the tenth century of our era. and an identical belief among the
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.htm (14 von 24) [06. P. . Clad in a narrow
[[Vol. authentic records of its history. 1. Another time. Alone. which have all been safely stowed away. the thousands of Sanskrit works which disappeared in India in the reign of Akbar. This statement is rendered more credible by a consideration of the following facts: the tradition of the thousands of ancient parchments saved when the Alexandrian library was destroyed. and turquoises. M. the ruins of two enormous cities. her bosom was covered with golden stars. with broken china and kitchen utensils and human bones. To recapitulate.000 years ago by a hero and giant. within which beautifully preserved embalmed bodies are found. The Secret Doctrine was the universally diffused religion of the ancient and prehistoric world. Colonel (now General) Prjevalsky. . showing its character and presence in every land. . a young girl was discovered by us. Proofs of its diffusion. the tribe of Khoorassan claims to have come from what is now known as Afghanistan. Blavatsky. the feet being left naked. though no longer visible to profane eyes. they reply that they know not whence their fathers had come. the answer may be based upon primeval tradition. the universal tradition in China and Japan that the true old texts with the commentaries. and brings legendary lore to that effect as corroboration. . in a separate coffin. Prjevalsky. found quite close to the oasis of Tchertchen. and these and like traditions. still remain for the initiate. . Her eyes were closed with golden discs. but had heard that their first (or earliest) men were ruled by the great genii of these deserts. Page]] xxxiv INTRODUCTORY. The Russian traveller. Introductory (vol 1)
origin. hidden in secret caves and crypts. long before the days of Alexander." (From a lecture by N. . . which alone make them comprehensible -amounting to many thousands of volumes -. a complete chain of documents. together with the teaching of all its great adepts. owing to shifting sands and the desert wind. The traces of such civilization. "The emplacement of the two cities is now covered. .theosociety. melted silver.
woollen garment. ingots. The same tradition exists on the Lob-nor and in the oasis of Kerya. and the jaws held firm by a golden circlet running from under the chin across the top of the head.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. . The male mummies are all extremely tall powerfully built men with long waving hair.05." "Coffins of some undecaying wood. together with various reliques of ancient MAGIC lore. with strange and heterogeneous relics. the disappearance of the vast sacred and occult literature of Babylon.have long passed out of the reach of profane hands. or material. . . the loss of those keys which alone could solve the thousand riddles of the Egyptian hieroglyphic records. The natives often find copper and gold coins.broken glass. diamonds. the oldest of which was. and what is the most remarkable -. This may be put down to ignorance and superstition.

the abuse of which would cause incalculable evil to humanity. as. that there are several documents in the
http://www. to re-appear in some more enlightened age. for each principle is correlated to a plane.g. The Occultists assert that all these exist.The Secret Doctrine by H. nevertheless. So that any septenary division at once gives a clue to tremendous occult powers. and the human principles are. 1. no clue to the present generation -. perhaps. Page]] xxxv INTRODUCTORY.protected as they are by their very blindness and ignorant materialistic disbelief in the occult. and entering a cycle of degradation. "We can understand. with regard to their secret books. but a clue which would. or
[[Vol. or the seven races.in the policy of centuries. and a race. on every plane. discovered by J. P. "the necessity for concealing from the herd such secrets as the Vril. nor was their policy dictated by selfishness. a very curious one." The danger was this: Doctrines such as the planetary chain. it is true. those beyond the pale of Aryan civilization) will have to wait.theosociety. The answer to a question which has frequently arisen in the minds of students.especially the Westerns -. Introductory (vol 1)
Buddhists.05.htm (15 von 24) [06. W. when meeting with statements such as this. which made them rife for abuse of occult powers and sorcery of the worst description. This is very old news.2003 03:30:27]
. "the Mlechchhas (outcasts. of Philadelphia. or the rock-destroying force. Blavatsky." For it is not the fault of the initiates that these documents are now "lost" to the profane. wherein MYSTERIES have ever been made a discipline and stimulus to virtue. was equivalent to giving a child a lighted candle in a powder magazine..org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. have been very real in the early centuries of the Christian era.those of the higher planes being of tremendous power. from Pythagoras and Plato down to the Neoplatonists. e. A clue. savages. But this was because to impart to the unprepared multitude secrets of such tremendous importance. There were portions of the Secret Science that for incalculable ages had to remain concealed from the profane gaze. there is a well-known fact. and was repeatedly made known by the great adepts. It was the new religion of the Nazarenes that wrought a change for the worse -. but the knowledge itself and its actual existence had never been made a secret of by the Hierophants of the Temple. which is." they say. but we cannot understand how any danger could arise from the revelation of such a purely philosophic doctrine. for which in the words of the late Swami Dayanand Sarasvati. a planet. at once give a clue to the seven-fold nature of man. correlated to seven-fold occult forces -. corroborated to the writer by a reverend gentleman attached for years to a Russian Embassy -. safe from Western spoliating hands. Moreover. the evolution of the planetary chains. to people fully convinced of the reality of occultism.namely. The documents were concealed. Keely.
any desire to monopolise the life-giving sacred lore. may be outlined here.

even so late as during the days when Freemasonry. i. Legge* -. but have been cautiously given out to. not original teachers.who calls him "emphatically a transmitter.theosociety. This is a corroboration of that which has been stated many times before. nor is its philosophy new. too indiscreetly. Thus every nation received in its turn some of the said truths. Introductory (vol 1)
St. as already stated. a Pantheon in mythical disguise.htm (16 von 24) [06. And more than one returned years later.) The writer loves them too. Page]] xxxvi INTRODUCTORY. Is it a new religion. which. who had invented a new religion. I believe in the ancients and therefore I love them. 1. a very ancient
[[Vol. though a very modern Sage in the World's History. and therefore believes in the ancients. we are asked? By no means. Selecting one or more of those grand verities -. But now the mischief is done. and Secret Societies of Mystics flourished unimpeded in Russia. Instead of benefiting humanity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. and the modern heirs to their
http://www. with a rich store of such information as could never have been given him anywhere in Europe. not a maker" -.out of the many orally revealed to man in the beginning.especially by the late Ragon.
burg Imperial Libraries to show that. it is as old as thinking man. 1.actualities visible only to the eye of the real Sage and Seer -. P. Therefore is Confucius. These founders were all transmitters. but for the fact that such publicity might annoy the surviving relatives of the said late Initiates. whether Aryan.. under the veil of its own local and special symbolism.they revealed these truths to the masses. More than one great scholar has stated that there never was a religious founder. the virulent charges of deliberate invention and imposture with a purpose thrown at those who asserted but a truthful. more than one Russian Mystic travelled to Tibet via the Ural mountains in search of knowledge and initiation in the unknown crypts of Central Asia. and. preserved and perpetuated in the adyta of the temples through initiation. whatever the consequences. have only generated bad Karma for the slanderers. shown by Dr. and truth should no longer be denied. it is not a religion. They were the authors of new forms and interpretations. unfortunately. more than one European Initiate -.
legislator in historical chronology. Semitic or Turanian. while the truths upon which the latter were based were as old as mankind. and he will assure himself of the fact stated. during the MYSTERIES and by personal transmission -.e."** (Quoted in "Science of Religions" by Max Muller. Peters-
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. as time went on. Its tenets are not now published for the first time. and taught by. if even a little known fact.The Secret Doctrine by H. and well-known names brought forward. developed into a more or less philosophical cultus. Blavatsky. Several cases could be cited. for. Page]] xxxvii INTRODUCTORY. Let any one look over the Annals and History of Freemasonry in the archives of the Russian metropolis. at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century.as saying: "I only hand on: I cannot create new things.

05. 96." p." p. . of the Magians. P. 7. and finally.
called "a modern forgery" even so recently as fifty years ago? Was not Sanskrit proclaimed at one time the progeny of. and
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* Lun Yu (§ I a) Schott. the Greek. And how can a Western scholar accept on hearsay that which he knows nothing about? Indeed. Agreeably with the rules of critical scholarship. that its teachings antedate the Vedas. But it will take centuries before much more is given from it. Page]] xxxviii INTRODUCTORY.The Secret Doctrine by H. . but. but simply a statement based on the knowledge of facts.i." in whatever department of exact science. and there was not a single scholar who could have translated a line of the Veda . and of the Buddhists. rejected. according to Lempriere and other scholars? About 1820. The same will be said of the Secret Archaic Doctrine. Blavatsky. As to those who may reject her testimony. it was remarked by the writer in "Isis Unveiled" some ten years ago that: "The said key must be turned seven times before the whole system
http://www. but only in this one. Prof. or have some special hobby of their own to defend. which are the records of a people unknown to ethnology. Every century an attempt is being made to show the world that Occultism [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. and must be accepted beforehand. she now transmits that which she has received and learnt herself to all those who will accept it. -. No one styling himself a "scholar. of the Buddhist Tripitaka. and. simply outlined. Therefore. incessantly discredited before the world by all those who hate unwelcome truths. They will be derided and rejected a priori in this century. ** "Life of Confucius. Max Muller tells us. as she is right in hers in affirming. finally. it is claimed that they are written in a tongue absent from the nomenclature of languages and dialects with which philology is acquainted. of the Zend Avesta.2003 03:30:27]
. when proofs are given of its undeniable existence and records. For in the twentieth century of our era scholars will begin to recognize that the Secret Doctrine has neither been invented nor exaggerated. Introductory (vol 1)
Wisdom. "Chinesische Literatur.. will be permitted to regard these teachings seriously. the great majority -. and now the Vedas are proved to be the work of the highest antiquity whose 'preservation amounts almost to a marvel' (Lecture on the Vedas).e. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. .*** Have not the latter been derided. This first instalment of the esoteric doctrines is based upon Stanzas. Speaking of the keys to the Zodiacal mysteries as being almost lost to the world.theosociety. they are offered through an agency. as much as from written teachings. and a dialect derived from. the sacred books of the Brahmans. "were all but unknown. for they will be as right in their way in denying. *** This is no pretension to prophecy. since they look at TRUTH from two entirely different stand-points. the Orientalist has to reject a priori whatever evidence he cannot fully verify for himself. on the contrary. their very existence was doubted.she will bear them no malice. or . the rejection of these teachings may be expected.htm (17 von 24) [06. And believing in both. they are said to emanate from a source (Occultism) repudiated by science. 1. that which is given in these volumes is selected from oral.

who understands the whole!" The same may be said of the whole Esoteric system. some of whom knew these doctrines because they had studied them. and some of whom had even been personally initiated into the ancient Mysteries. he may still find a means of examining it from as short a distance as can be arrived
http://www. like the once-mysterious sources of the Nile. freely spoken about now. and to cite well-known authors. but with a volume rather. but is at last found.
portions of the esoteric teachings that have now escaped from confinement. good judgment. as they are divulged. so far.of the existence of such teachings was first established. along with the mysteries of the latter. of recognized ability. as also to name some of the famous proficients in the secret arts and science. may be sent by the Masters of Wisdom to give final and irrefutable proofs that there exists a Science called GuptaVidya. was forbidden. have to be shown warranted by various authorities: those of ancient philosophers. was given in "Isis. partially presented before the public in their strange archaic form. rather. P. suddenly reaches the borderland of a terra incognita." Much more is explained in these volumes. unless the genuineness and authenticity -. Such statements as will now be made.theosociety. during the performance of which the arcane doctrines were allegorically enacted. It would be worse than useless to publish in these pages even those
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[[Vol. but contains all that can be given out to the world in this century.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. Happy he. an illustration may be attempted.05. had seen and read works written upon them. classics and even certain learned Church Fathers. and thereby allow the profane one glimpse into the mystery. But. 1. or a series of vague theories. The times are ripe for a more serious knowledge than hitherto permitted.2003 03:30:27]
. one that would give facts. the source of all religions and philosophies now known to the world has been for many ages forgotten and lost to men. since the SECRET DOCTRINE is not a treatise. Blavatsky. Such a work as this has to be introduced with no simple Preface. it will be opened wider with every new century. We will give it but one turn. and truthfulness. In those days the writer hardly knew the language in which the work was written. When a tourist coming from a well-explored country. and far better fitted. Once the door permitted to be kept a little ajar. and the disclosure of many things. hedged in. To make our plan clearer. How is this to be done? What is the best way for achieving such an object? was the ever-recurring question. The writer will have to give historical and trustworthy names. and that. he may still refuse to acknowledge himself baffled in his exploratory plans. Ingress beyond is forbidden. or. One turn of the key. and shut out from view by a formidable barrier of impassable rocks. Introductory (vol 1)
is divulged. In Century the Twentieth some disciple more informed. if he cannot visit the mysterious region personally. the probability -. though still very limited. ancient and modern. not mere disquisitions. and no more.at any rate.The Secret Doctrine by H. Page]] xxxix INTRODUCTORY.

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. comparing that which he dimly perceives with that which he has just left below. Let one only think of the thousands. or rather Sorcery. in desert and
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. and to shackle and gag every witness who testified to it.The Secret Doctrine by H. Once there. and would glance at the present state of beliefs and creeds in Europe. the hated religions of the Past. pulverised to dust. they all failed.because throwing such a vivid light on the new and intentionally veiled interpretation of what is now known as the "New Dispensation.whether historically correct or not -. Introductory (vol 1)
at. Even in her uncertain records." However superhuman the efforts of the early Christian fathers to obliterate the Secret Doctrine from the very memory of man. now that he is. at his leisure. he can get a general and pretty correct idea of the transmural view. with its Occult Arts. hated and dreaded -. then. thanks to his efforts. Helped by his knowledge of landscapes left behind him. followed the beginning of Christianity. This event -. Blavatsky. of this work. on the spot of observation selected.
following the Christian era. burnt. In that volume a brief recapitulation will be made of all the principal adepts known to history. and Magic sailed but too often under the venerable but frequently misleading name of Hermetic philosophy. for those who would like to get a more correct understanding of the mysteries of the pre-archaic periods given in the texts.has nevertheless been made to serve as a first signal for the erection of manifold bulwarks against any possible return of. to obliterate every trace of the mental and intellectual labour of the Pagans.htm (19 von 24) [06. so Magic. by the year ONE of the Nativity. However great and zealous the fanatical efforts. every bright page written in the pre-Christian periods. compare and check it with what is known to history of the ages directly preceding and
[[Vol. From that time its teachings became Occult. of the bands of early hermits and ascetics roaming about among the ruined cities of Upper and Lower Egypt. 1. or even a glimpse into. cannot be offered to them in these two volumes. but the same spirit of the dark demon of bigotry and intolerance has perverted systematically and ever since. after which began the disappearance and final and systematic elimination from the memory of men of the real nature of initiation and the Sacred Science. and the downfall of the mysteries will be described. Truth can never be killed. the reader tarry a little while with the writer. P. of MSS. beyond the line of the mists and the cloud-capped cliffs. Page]] xl INTRODUCTORY. with their too indiscreet inscriptions and pictorial symbols. As real Occultism had been prevalent among the Mystics during the centuries that preceded our era. and perhaps millions. during those early centuries. then he will find all this in Volume III. if he will only climb to the loftiest summit of the altitudes in front of him. But if the reader has patience. history has preserved enough of that which has survived to throw an impartial light upon the whole. hence the failure to sweep away entirely from the face of the earth every vestige of that ancient Wisdom. he can gaze at it. Let. of monuments. it was a failure. He is asked to give all his attention to that millennium which divided the pre-Christian and the post-Christian periods.

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[[Vol.the worship of God's SPIRIT. and both have made "-------------. and he will then see plainly how it is that so little has remained of the records of the Past. As already said in the Preface.
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. though entirely independent of the earlier work. The Secret Doctrine will now throw light on many a problem left unsolved in the first work. the earth a tomb.
it rather.the sun like blood. Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point. adopted by the Theosophical Society."SATYAT NASTI PARO DHARMAH" -. Max Muller. Page]] xli INTRODUCTORY.theosociety. when past things shall be forgiven. that will point to the Karma for cunningly made-up HISTORY. the "witness to the wonderful speeches of a free-thinker who belongs to a thousand sects": "In the assembly of the day of resurrection.as originally intended. of our era. p. the Secret Doctrine is not a version of "Isis Unveiled" -. have from the first loved to dwell in darkness and ignorance.Bigotry and Materialism. Much of what was in Isis could hardly be understood by theosophists in those days. On the day of resurrection both Muhammadans and Christians will see the vanity of their religious doctrines.
mountain.05. 1. and hell itself a murkier gloom!" Both creeds have won their proselytes at the point of the sword. one accepting too much. mangled out of recognition.the motto of the Maharajah of Benares. Over the gateway of Century I. or any other sign borrowed and appropriated by the new faith. if it only bore the symbol of the tau. the future seer may discern other words.The Secret Doctrine by H. Blavatsky. valleys and highlands. the sins of the Ka'bah will be forgiven for the sake of the dust of Christian churches. of early and mediaeval Christianity and of Islam." by F.htm (20 von 24) [06. Verily.in heaven they shall find out that there is only one true religion -.
[[Vol. Professor Max Muller replies: "The sins of Islam are as worthless as the dust of Christianity."THERE IS NO RELIGION (OR LAW) HIGHER THAN TRUTH" -. P. the other denying all. and. Men fight about religion on earth -. the fiendish spirits of fanaticism. Page]] xlii INTRODUCTORY. especially on the opening pages. for events purposely perverted. The tomb a hell. 257." To this. both have built their churches on heaven-kissing hecatombs of human victims. 1. Over the portals of our own." fatally glowed. It is a volume explanatory of
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* "Lectures on the Science of Religion. Says Faigi Diwan. between the two cars of Jagannatha -."* In other words -. seeking for and eager to destroy every obelisk and pillar. an indispensable corollary to it. the ominous words "the KARMA OF ISRAEL. scroll or parchment they could lay their hands on. who believes in the eternal justice of things.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.

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. the sacred volumes of the Egyptian Thoth-Hermes. Volume I. Blavatsky. and now two large volumes explain that which was stated on the first page of ISIS UNVEILED alone. that it was taken down in Senzar. The most ancient Hebrew document on occult learning -. and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is written.htm (21 von 24) [06. and the gradual development of the mysterious Humanities and races that preceded our "Adamic" Humanity. for there was a time when its language (the Sen-zar) was known to the Initiates of every nation. Concerned simply with the philosophies within our historical times and the respective symbolism of the fallen nations. from the sages of the 3rd Race. the secret sacerdotal tongue. from the words of the Divine Beings. in their turn.05. As an instance."
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* The name is used in the sense of the Greek word [[anthropos]]. in Central Asia. Tradition says. detailed Cosmogony and the evolution of the four races that preceded our Fifth race Humanity are given. and then. the Manushis. As it approaches nearer and nearer to our planet. who learnt it direct from the Devas of the
http://www. at the very beginning of the 5th (our) race. China's primitive Bible. in truth. Page]] xliii INTRODUCTORY. when the forefathers of the Toltec understood it as easily as the inhabitants of the lost Atlantis. are all derived from that one small parent volume. and in a few allusions scattered hither and thither throughout that work. the Emanation becomes more and more shadowy. before we have disposed of such tremendous problems as Cosmic and Planetary Evolution. In the present work. and that at a time when the former was already considered in the light of a literary relic. the book of Shu-king.
The "very old Book" is the original work from which the many volumes of Kiu-ti were compiled. Nor could the vast catalogue of the Archaic Sciences be attempted in the present volumes. the writer must be allowed to illustrate what is said. P. of "Isis" begins with a reference to "an old book" -"So very old that our modern antiquarians might ponder over its pages an indefinite time. who dictated it to the sons of Light. having attained the highest point of its circumference. only a hurried glance could be thrown at the panorama of Occultism in the two volumes of Isis. who inherited it. One of its illustrations represents the Divine Essence emanating from ADAM* like a luminous arc proceeding to form a circle.* the work attributed by the Hebrew Kabalists to their Patriarch Abraham (!). and the Chaldean Book of Numbers and the Pentateuch itself. 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. Not only this latter and the Siphrah Dzeniouta but even the Sepher Jezirah.the Siphrah Dzeniouta -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. and returns to earth. nothing to do with the earlier work.theosociety. Therefore.was compiled from it. until upon touching the ground it is as black as night.
[[Vol. bringing a higher type of humanity in its vortex. the ineffable glory bends back again. It is the only original copy now in existence. the Puranas in India.

Synesius. that began with the great cycle of the Kali-Yuga. some of the doctrines of the Secret schools -. P.htm (22 von 24) [06. The illustration is symbolical. Sanhedrin. Introductory (vol 1)
2nd and 1st Races.000 years. openly declared that he had performed "miracles" by means of the Book of Sepher Jezireh. the period of the Supreme struggle that
http://www. Sankaracharya. universal Wisdom -. four of which are now passed in our life cycle. Alchemists. and even the late modern Magus.) Many of the Mediaeval Occultists. 56. More than this.. The old book. each Round being composed of the Yugas of the seven periods of Humanity. under the Christian veil. and is only as old as the Black Age. the bright "Sun-god. And then the last prophecy contained in that book (the first volume of the prophetic record for the Black Age) will be accomplished.
namely. We have not long to wait. and "Franck. Franck. after giving the true history of the races from the First down to the Fifth (our) race. having been in preparation since the time of Buddha's grand successor. at least. It is maintained. who died about A. 1. as every one can well understand. including physical man.The Secret Doctrine by H.were preserved in the Vatican. had been themselves initiated into the mysteries before adding to the Neo-Platonism of the Alexandrian school. and Kabalists claimed the same. publicly asserts it in print in his books on Magic. as it was born with. quoting from the Babylonian Talmud. of the Prophecies is nearly ready." the once living hero and reformer. names two other thaumaturgists.05. that Origen. One more important point must be noticed. and heterodox mysticism generally. in the shape of disfigured additions made to the original Christian programme by the Latin Church. and even Clemens Alexandrinus." pp. and challenged every sceptic. Blavatsky.2003 03:30:27]
. and covers the ground from the beginning.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. one that stands foremost in the series of proofs given of the existence of one primeval. But there exists another book.at any rate for the Christian Kabalists and students.
[[Vol. at the end of which not a few accounts will be settled and squared between the races. Such is the now materialised dogma of the Immaculate Conception. on purely historical grounds. The "illustration" spoken of in "Isis" relates to the evolution of these Races and of our 4th and 5th Race Humanity in the Vaivasvata Manvantara or "Round". The days of Constantine were the last turning-point in history." c. Eliphas Levi.
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* Rabbi Jehoshua Ben Chananea. The teachings were. having described Cosmic Evolution and explained the origin of everything on earth. etc.though by no means all -. will end. Volume II. None of its possessors regard it as very ancient. 55. 72. and have since become part and parcel of the mysteries. partially known to several of the Fathers of the Church. In about nine years hence. This accounts for the great persecutions set on foot by the Roman Catholic Church against Occultism. goes no further.theosociety. the first cycle of the first five millenniums. and many of us will witness the Dawn of the New Cycle. 7. about 5.D. that of the Gnostics. Rabbis Chanina and Oshoi. (See "Jerusalem Talmud. the middle point of the 5th being nearly reached. Masonry. It stops short at the beginning of the Kali Yuga just 4989 years ago at the death of Krishna. Page]] xliv INTRODUCTORY.

from the first down to the last.who. therefore -. the ever-flowing perennial source. who were preceded and followed by a long and interminable line of other famous Antediluvian and Post-diluvian Masters in the arts. This period. of initiated poets. beginning with Buddha and Pythagoras at the one end and the Neo-Platonists and Gnostics at the other. on semi-traditional and semi-historical authority. beyond the "Deluge" and the Garden of Eden. and classics of every age. 1. having first maintained for years that the doctrines taught in the Theosophist. Yet there remains enough. No other means was at hand. at the risk even of being once more charged with a lack of method and system. to preserve in the records of Humanity the Knowledge of the existence. 1. have finally turned round. at which were fed all its streamlets -.The Secret Doctrine by H. if not actually of its tenets. to warrant us in saying that there is in them every possible evidence of the actual existence of a Parent Doctrine. foam and bark at their very shadows.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in. destroyed.the later religions of all nations -. P. Fragments have survived geological and political cataclysms to tell the story. past and future. Paracelsus (!!). Blavatsky. Nor shall I condescend to notice those crack-brained slanderers -. From thence the vista into the far distant Past. writers.05. fasten like lethal bacilli on the weakest points of the body -I have nothing to say. who. built on their bodies. began to be forcibly and relentlessly closed by every fair and unfair means against the indiscreet gaze of posterity. mirabile
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. Page]] xlvi INTRODUCTORY. of such a philosophy." had been all invented by the present writer. These. Page]] xlv INTRODUCTORY. Thus only could be shown. at least. are not altogether fictions. The Initiates of 1888 would indeed remain incomprehensible and ever a seemingly impossible myth.
one fountain head. To my judges.theosociety. Introductory (vol 1)
ended in the Western world throttling the old religions in favour of the new one. hoping to attract public attention by throwing discredit on every writer whose name is better known than their own. unobscured by the hand of bigotry and fanaticism. This could be done only by naming Chapter and Verse where may be found mention of these great characters.
http://www. every record that hands could be laid upon. and.htm (23 von 24) [06. even among such mutilated records. that knowledge of the Occult and the powers it confers on man. and which culminated in "Esoteric Buddhism.fortunately very few in number -.whether they are serious literary critics. hardly glancing at its contents. This accounts for the necessity under which the writer has laboured to be ever explaining the facts given from the hoariest Past by evidence gathered from the historical period. Every issue was blocked up. or those howling dervishes in literature who judge a book according to the popularity or unpopularity of the author's name. and denounced "Isis Unveiled" and the rest as a plagiarism from Eliphas Levi (!). The public must be made acquainted with the efforts of many World-adepts.

Page]] xlvii INTRODUCTORY.The Secret Doctrine by H.you will never be able to make away with these.. If three such evidences are joined together the certitude will become 215/216. The agreement of ten persons giving each 1/2 of certitude will produce 1023/1024 . etc. and no more.e. and consciousness. lest the reader should look down on this work as a fairy tale indeed -. The Occultist may remain satisfied.which is equal to saying the very few. but which could not be passed by in silence. belong to a later part of the work.2003 03:30:27]
. properly speaking.theosociety. The errors of the day must be explained and swept away.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.and in the present case it amounts to certitude -. In an INTRODUCTION prefacing a Part dealing chiefly with Cosmogony. but one more consideration added to those already given have led me to touch upon them. and thus impart to it each of them 5/6 of certitude. and which I now clothe in the words of Montaigne: Gentlemen. "I HAVE HERE MADE ONLY A NOSEGAY OF CULLED FLOWERS. Thus. AND HAVE BROUGHT NOTHING OF MY OWN BUT THE STRING THAT TIES THEM. if you will. the famous law of probabilities worked out by an algebraical process for the benefit of sceptics by certain mathematicians. the Buddha. Buddhism and Brahmanism (!!!) As well charge Renan with having stolen his Vie de Jesus from the Gospels. and care for no more. its probability will bear to its improbability the ratio of 35 to 1.. It runs thus: If two persons give their evidence to
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dictu.that once more the testimony of long ages and of history will fail to impress anyone but the very intuitional -. that fact will have then 35/36 of certitude. Blavatsky. experience.05." Pull the "string" to pieces and cut it up in shreds. and Max Muller his "Sacred Books of the East" or his "Chips" from the philosophies of the Brahmins and Gautama. We may close with a parting word concerning this Volume I. the true and the faithful may console themselves by presenting the sceptical modern Sadducee with the mathematical proof and memorial of his obdurate obstinacy and bigotry. Every reader will inevitably judge the statements made from the stand-point of his own knowledge.
a fact. 1. based on what he has already learnt. This fact the writer is constantly obliged to bear in mind: hence. P. But to the public in general and the readers of the "Secret Doctrine" I may repeat what I have stated all along.a fiction of some modern brain. As for the nosegay of FACTS -. also the frequent references in this first Book to matters which. i. and the latter to better appreciate the PAST. You can only ignore them.
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[[Vol. that is attainable by man. in view of the limitation of the human mind -.a forcibly limited symbol. the Divine Thought. It is the Point in the Mundane Egg (see Part II. "The Mundane Egg"). the Universal Soul. fire.htm (1 von 21) [06. Only the face of the Disk being white and the ground all around black. the boundless.indicates the abstract. "by a clairvoyant wisdom superior to all consciousness.is before the writer's eye. ever incognisable PRESENCE. arrived at the vast creative. for it is in this SOUL that slumbers. and its plane. without beginning or end. The point in the hitherto immaculate Disk.
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* It is hardly necessary to remind the reader once more that the term "Divine Thought.a collection of palm leaves made impermeable to water. Page]] 2 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." according to von Hartmann. periodical Kosmos. AN Archaic Manuscript -. before the re-awakening of still slumbering Energy. dim and hazy though it still is. this germ being latent and active. from which all proceeds." which in the Vedantic language would mean absolute Wisdom.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. or rather Evolutionary Plan. On the first page is an immaculate white disk within a dull black ground. periodically and by turns.. denotes the dawn of differentiation.Vol." like that of "Universal Mind. P. Its circumference -. 1. yet Omnipresent.
It is the ONE LIFE. Proem
The Secret Doctrine by H. Blavatsky. by some specific unknown process -. whither all returns.* wherein lies concealed the plan of every future Cosmogony and Theogony. although the two are one. the same disk. the ALL. Space and Eternity in Pralaya. The first. the germ within the latter which will become the Universe. during the Pralaya." must not be regarded as even vaguely shadowing forth an intellectual process akin to that exhibited by man. shows clearly that its plane is the only knowledge. invisible. yet periodical in its
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cosmic motion (the visible. From the beginning of man's inheritance. eternal. the two being the alpha and omega of successive reconstructions. the thrill of the creative Breath in Nature. Page]] 3 PROEM.theosociety. or that which is subject to perception) is finite and periodical. as we know it. Almost five centuries B. But then there is nothing in fact and reality absolutely motionless within the universal soul.The Secret Doctrine by H. and the eternal witnesses to this unseen Presence are Light. Moisture.C. unphilosophical. he repents and feels "fierce anger. is resolvable into states of consciousness.an occult teaching. which is ITSELF."the breath of God. "Symbolism of the Cross and Circle." But the notion of such mental states clearly involves the unthinkable postulate of the externality of the exciting stimuli. again.05. Kosmos -." -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. what is worse. Sensation. the gods. complexity. the ideal Kosmos in the immutable Divine Thought. As an eternal abstraction it is the EVERPRESENT. vol 1. that we may say: "It never had a beginning nor
http://www. Epicurus and Lucretius taught the same. is called in esoteric parlance the "Great Breath. "a chaos to the sense.the NOUMENON -. necessarily postulates limitation. The personal God of orthodox Theism perceives." as the first astronomers who observed the motions of the heavenly bodies called the planets [[theoi]]. and being the cause of.has nought to do with the causal relations of the phenomenal World. only adding to the lateral motion of the atoms the idea of affinity -. It is only with reference to the intra-cosmic soul. and is affected by emotion.* Intra-Cosmic motion is eternal and ceaseless. resting on sensation. etc. [[aletheia]] -. the instructor of Democritus. between which periods reigns the dark mystery of non-Being. The conceptions of a Personal God as changeless and infinite are thus unpsychological and. to say nothing of the impossibility of ascribing changelessness to a Being whose emotions fluctuate with events in the worlds he presides over." "to run. unrealisable.") Later. Blavatsky. unconscious. rotatory motion. when those atoms aggregated. from the first appearance of the architects of the globe he lives in. (See Book II. the unrevealed Deity was recognised and considered under its only philosophical aspect -universal motion.
phenomenon in Nature. in the ultimate. Heat. every
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] that absolute Wisdom which transcends the ideas of Time and Space.this trinity including." Its one absolute attribute. a Kosmos to the reason. Leucippus. -. the latter generating in due course of time. living (or moving) FIRE. maintained that Space was filled eternally with atoms actuated by a ceaseless motion. thinks. "to move. it is finite both in the coming direction and the opposite. * Plato proves himself an Initiate. Proem
regular manifestations. truly. in the sense of limitless. of varying duration."* which is the perpetual motion of the universe. 1.2003 03:30:32]
. when saying in Cratylus that [[theos]] is derived from the verb [[theein]]. ceaseless Motion. Occultism sums up the "One Existence" thus: "Deity is an arcane.. intensity. P. yet the one self-existing reality. as a manifestation. which is again Maya. ever-present SPACE.all. yet absolute Consciousness."
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In its turn. and deem it foolish to theorise upon the abstract and "unknowable" power in its passive condition.hence not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher.
two are able to understand the profound logic of their philosophy. Page]] 4 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." Introd. etc. P." says one of its ablest advocates. as it evolutes every time on a higher plane . which collectively form the one eternal substance. 1885. yet no one would ever have thought of charging him with atheism. or will ever have a last construction. the essence of which is inscrutable -. and to come.. Blavatsky. . Finsbury. meanwhile. but an infinitude of creative powers. . we claim our rights of Conceptionalists as against Roscelini's materialistic views of Realism and Nominalism. "revealed anything that weakens or opposes itself to the ancient words in which the Essence of all religion.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. our materialists may be right in their own way. is given. A few years ago only. speculate only upon the active condition of this "Essence.2003 03:30:32]
. and even the Kabala. present. to love mercy. to do justly. . Dec. the producer of that motion? Is it a substance? Then you are believers in a Personal God?" etc. but the symbolic conception of that which is Life and Motion of the Universe. The latter is either "awake" or "asleep. yet at each new Manvantara. and will be. in the moral.)
[[Vol. like Buddhism and Brahminism." which they call Svabhavat. and which became with them the anthropomorphic God of the Christians -." A Discourse delivered at South Place Chapel. to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving" ("Prin. except those who were bent upon his destruction. and to come. "What is that body. in the Addendum to this Book. Proem
will it have an end. it was stated that: -"The esoteric doctrine teaches. Edward Clodd. If we take a one-sided view of the philosophy of the latter. vol 1. 10). London. to walk humbly before thy God?" Provided we connote by the word God. is to know what has been. and in regular and harmonious successions is either passive or active. In the poetical phraseology of Manu these conditions are called the "Days" and the "Nights" of Brahma. or philosophers of the oldest school of Buddhism (which still exists in Nepaul)." With regard to its body or Cosmic organization. within human consciousness. (See "Science and the Emotions.. that the one infinite and unknown Essence exists from all eternity. 27th.the male Jehovah. of Human Knowledge." The Svabhavikas.05. roaring amid thunder and lightning. may put the question.htm (3 von 21) [06.theosociety. rationalistic science greets the Buddhists and the Svabhavikas as the "positivists" of the archaic ages. arguing with Berkeley that "it is impossible . present. Socrates invariably refused to argue upon the mystery of universal being. par. "Has science. Upon inaugurating an active
http://www. 1. past. . not the crude anthropomorphism which is still the backbone of our current theology. is. its organization may be regarded as the first and the last of its kind. This will be answered farther on. to know which in physical order is to know time past. Hence they are called atheists by both Christian theologians and modern scientists. The former will allow of no other God than the personified secondary powers which have worked out the visible universe. . to know which.The Secret Doctrine by H. for neither of the
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or the separation of sexes by natural evolution took place -. Page]] 5 PROEM.theosociety. so-called.htm (4 von 21) [06. the point in the disc.) This passage will be explained. In its third stage the point is transformed into a diameter. to a degree. a disc
with a point in it -. broods once more over the face of the 'deep. and the previous work of creation is gradually and progressively undone. Though. when . By adding to the circle with the horizontal line in it.when the figure became
http://www. The first shadowy perception of man connected with procreation is feminine. also "The Days and Nights of Brahma" in Part II. it becomes the mundane cross. sexless and infinite "Aditi in THAT" (Rig Veda). Nature is therefore feminine. it contains nothing new to the Orientalist.the first differentiation in the periodical manifestations of the ever-eternal nature. an expansion of this Divine essence from without inwardly and from within outwardly. and the phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus progressively set in motion. vol 1.the oldest form of the letter. It was the glyph of the third root-race to the day of its symbolical Fall -. an out-breathing of the 'unknown essence' produces the world. or simply Svastica within a circle circle By the third symbol -.--.e. and our present universe is but one of an infinite series. when the passive condition is resumed. the circle. its material dispersed. because feminine) Nature was meant.' To use a Metaphor from the Secret Books. P. When the circumference disappears and leaves only the it is a sign that the fall of man into matter is accomplished.the circle divided in two by the horizontal line of the diameter -. objective and tangible. and. a perpendicular line. says the Secret Doctrine.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. Humanity has reached its third root-race.the first manifestation of creative (still passive. Blavatsky.2003 03:30:32]
. and an inhalation causes it to disappear." -. and the FOURTH race begins. The first illustration being a plain disc the second one in the Archaic symbol shows .05. which will convey the idea still more clearly. Proem
period. it is the sign for the origin of human life to begin. which had no beginning and will have no end. and 'darkness' solitary and alone. This process has been going on from all eternity. its esoteric interpretation may contain a good deal which has hitherto remained entirely unknown to the Western student. occurs in obedience to eternal and immutable law. the tau was formed -. In like manner. or potential Space within abstract Space.(See "Isis Unveiled"." the Jaina cross.i. in the present work. because man knows his mother more than his father. as it now stands.
When the diameter line is crossed by a vertical one . thus It now symbolises a divine immaculate Mother-Nature within the all-embracing absolute Infinitude.
[[Vol. The visible universe becomes disintegrated. Hence female deities were more sacred than the male.. as far as it is possible. 1. The Cross within a circle symbolises pure Pantheism. It had the same and yet other meanings as a TAU inscribed within a or as a "Thor's hammer. it became phallic. a contraction of the Divine essence takes place.The Secret Doctrine by H. and the spirit Principle which fructifies it is concealed. when the Cross was left uninscribed.

" Add to this the fact that Jehovah is the third Sephiroth. Binah." explains Mandukya Upanishad (2. as a "Secondless Reality. and not supreme (paravara). It is wrong and unjust to regard the Buddhists and Advaitee Occultists as atheists.2003 03:30:32]
. "The Source of Measures. their essence makes him immortal. heat or flame. Then comes the into the Egyptian Svastica (Thor's hammer.05. not supreme as effect.in the highest spiritual sense. "the attributes of the latter. is naught else than the absolute Essence itself. are not the attributes of the Spirit." Can the flame be called the essence of Fire? This Essence is "the LIFE and LIGHT of the Universe. all logicians. death. "the ONE true Existence. their objections and arguments being based on strict reasoning. a position every
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* See that suggestive work. By certain Kabalistic transformations this name. this absolute Principle will be found to be the prototype from which all the others were copied. pure. the infinite Cosmic Space -. entirely separated from its Circle. "It is that which is supreme. thus becoming purely phallic." not fire itself. androgynous in the first chapters of Genesis. of the first-formed races. Book II. Parabrahm is not "God. IT is "Supreme" as CAUSE. P. Paramarthika. With the races of our Fifth Race it became in symbology the sacr'. with its two points (horns) turned heavenward. and still later into the sign of Venus. or the "Hermetic Cross" now). they are. thus the sign of human sorcery. and you have the key to the mystery. Blavatsky. Parabrahm is simply. free." and the absolute Chit and Chaitanya (intelligence.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr." "Fire and Flame destroy the body of an Arhat." where the author explains the real meaning of the word "sacr'. and evil.) "The knowledge of the absolute Spirit." (Bodhi-mur. IT -." and used in ceremonial magic. 1. The esoteric symbol of Kali Yuga is the five-pointed star reversed. if the Parabrahmam of the Hindus may be taken as a representative of the hidden and nameless deities of other nations. "for THAT can have no subject of cognition.is "the Spirit of the Fire." says Sankaracharya. consciousness) cannot be a cogniser. the visible fire and flame are destruction.htm (5 von 21) [06.The Secret Doctrine by H." are derived. and in Hebrew n'cabvah. therefore. but of that of which that Spirit is the unconscious cause.* then it changed (emblem of life).a double glyph or symbol.theosociety. Page]] 6 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. which have now become synonyms of "holiness.
Occultist will recognise as one of the "left-hand." the all-inclusive Kosmos -. that in the Kabala also "the value of the Jehovah name is that of the diameter of a circle. like the effulgence of the sun." Is not the above sentence the true key-note of later Rosicrucian
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sexless life modified or separated -. or like heat in fire." because It is not a God. If not all of them philosophers. a feminine word. Brahma (neuter) being the unchanging. rather.or. at any rate." from which "sacred. undecaying supreme Root.28).* It is hoped that during the perusal of this work the erroneous ideas of the public in general with regard to Pantheism will be modified. vol 1." though purely phallic!
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very logically." THAT is Non-"being. as also "The Aphorisms of S'andilya. the "THAT" and "THIS" to which distributive aggregates can not be applied.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. absoluteness very naturally precluding any idea of the finite or conditioned from being connected with it. p. change. It is only limited Omniscience and Omnipotence that are refused to the latter. when the Pantheists echo the Upanishads. Proem
transformations entirely masculine. for. this Self-Existence can hardly be conceived of as creating personally. in this ALL lies concealed its coeternal and coeval emanation or inherent radiation. ** Nevertheless. something finite to an Infinite Principle. is transformed into the Waters of concrete substance moved by him. the great Sankaracharya. And if the Vedantin postulates attributes as belonging simply to its emanation." by Major G.
philosophy? Parabrahm is. Blavatsky. prejudiced and rather fanatical Christian Orientalists would like to prove this pure Atheism. who now becomes the manifested WORD or Logos. to call upon it as the "One living God. the collective aggregate of Kosmos in its infinity and eternity. which. The fact of choosing a deity among the pagan gods and making of it a special national God.05. the unconditioned Mukta. or form. or rather a collective aggregate of creators." especially in the case of a priapic deity. as Jehovah now demonstrated to be. to attribute "creation" and especially formation. see about Major Jacob's "Vedanta Sara.
[[Vol. that "this" cannot create. 1. one only" (Aitareya Upanishad). in short.* "In the beginning THIS was the Self. which state." Yet." translated by Cowell. it is difficult to find any Atheism in this conception. For proof of this.theosociety." the "God of Gods. can have no attributes. Jacob. the sense of the words. Narayana moving on the (abstract) waters of Space." meaning before the reproduction of the phenomenal Universe. and because Parabrahm. explains that "THIS" referred to the Universe (Jagat). upon becoming periodically Brahma (the male-female Potency) becomes or expands itself into the manifested Universe. calling it "Iswara plus Maya. "In the beginning." in the sense that it is the one BE-NESS.** Since there can be neither two INFINITES nor two ABSOLUTES in a Universe supposed to be Boundless. changeless and eternal.The Secret Doctrine by H. Parabrahmam is a passive because an Absolute Cause."
http://www." the ever invisible spirit and Soul of Nature. the whole Antiquity echoes this Vedantic thought: -"Omnis enim per se divom natura necesse est Immortali aevo summa cum pace fruatur. In the sense and perceptions of finite "Beings. does not change it into the ONE Principle whose "Unity admits not of multiplication. they do not deny a Creator. 42. With them. A." and then proclaim this worship Monotheistic. being the "Supreme ALL. as in the Secret Doctrine. vol 1. Page]] 7 PROEM.2003 03:30:32]
. but only refuse. P. Cainite and phallic." and Avidya (Agnosticism and Nescience rather than ignorance). because these are still attributes (as reflected in man's perceptions).htm (6 von 21) [06.
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that Unity would cease to be one. who expands himself later into gods and all the visible Universe. Locke's idea that "pure Space is capable of neither resistance nor Motion" -. lxvi. therefore. and the One All is like Space -. and Brahma. the unmanifested. There is no difference between the Christian Apostle's "In Him we live and move and have our being. those who rise the most against the Pantheists and Adwaitees. and of the other.
The orthodox Brahmins. P. The God of the Apostle-Initiate and of the Rishi being both the Unseen and the Visible SPACE. perception. Blavatsky. the ever-incognisable Deity." It is composed from
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return to. Brahmam. "to pervade. instead of being in Eternity. and all in this universe are simply the potencies.. 1.which is its only mental and physical representation on this Earth. Yet.
[[Vol. at one with the Adwaita Vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet. whether manifested or unmanifested: it is. vol 1. Page]] 9 PROEM. becoming through periodical manifestation a manifold Universe or a multiple personality. nor a subject to. if Manu has any authority in this matter. is derived by some from the word Brih. made male-female* in the symbolical orthodox dogmas. Proem
[[Vol. the Rishis. 14).05. or Brahm. and the duration of that "something". or our plane of existence -. therefore. the manifested. The Occultists are. the Omnipresent Unity." to enter in the nature of the essence." but both: being. is the Logos. vol.a period which in our years requires fifteen figures to express it).the Creator. Space is neither a "limitless void. Space is called in the esoteric symbolism "the Seven-Skinned Eternal Mother-Father. For the root of one.htm (7 von 21) [06. Page]] 8 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." nor a "conditioned fulness.* and on that of mayavic perception. 1. to accept the death of Brahma. p. or as a periodical rest. of which the gods." and the Hindu Rishi's "The Universe lives in. the Manus. Vibhutayah.neither an object of. the absolute Container of all that is. calling them Atheists. ought to have long ago suggested their esoteric meanings. no philosopher among them will view this "death" in any other sense than as a temporary disappearance from the manifested plane of existence. "to grow" or "to expand" (see Calcutta Review. for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something. at the expiration of every "Age" of this (creative) deity (100 Divine years -. Brahma-Vishnu being this infinite SPACE." into which it is said to enter in order to transform itself into Brahma -. from the root Vis.is incorrect. the creator.The Secret Doctrine by H. that ABSOLUTE ALL. and will
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* The very names of the two chief deities. They say that Absolute Unity cannot pass to infinity. which is void only to finite minds. is that Universe in abscondito. If one could suppose the Eternal Infinite All. the Plenum. proceeds from.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. Brahma (Brahma)": for Brahma (neuter). are forced. They show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute ALL creating or even evolving the "Golden Egg.2003 03:30:32]
.theosociety. Vishnu.

org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr." (p. It is full of esoteric dogmas and philosophy. never from the Unmanifestable ONE LIFE.05.The Secret Doctrine by H. in the concluding chapters. Space. and thus merely throw the difficulty of origination a step farther back.2003 03:30:32]
. It is not the One Unknown ever-present God in Nature. Pratt's subjects. Blavatsky. and identified with. we may say -.is as the "Un[[Footnote continued on next page]]
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accepts revelation as coming from divine yet still finite Beings. granted)..are old Kabalistic ideas and theories which he presents in quite a new garb: "New Aspects" of the Occult in Nature." In his infinite conceit and inherent pride and vanity. this would only lead to the transferring thereto of the attributes otherwise accruing to space. viewed as a "Substantial Unity" -. the primary embodiment of Simple Unity. whether there is a Universe or not. Dhyani-Buddhas. man shaped it himself with his sacrilegious hand out of the material he found in his own small brain-fabric. Many -. Among many other works recently published. is. a mere receptive capacity.SPACE. without gaining additional light as to primary causation.) This is precisely what has been done by the believers in an anthropomorphic Creator." by Henry Pratt. infinite. and forced it upon mankind as a direct revelation from the one unrevealed SPACE. And this incognisability has led to the error of supposing it to be a simple void. And the answer made is -. vol 1. an extracosmic.** The Occultist
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* See Manu's account of Brahma separating his body into male and female. the manifested lives. It is called "New Aspects of Life and Religion. or Nature in abscondito. instead of an intracosmic God. of Genesis. we would recommend one especially to students of theoretical Occultism who would not venture beyond the realm of our special human plane. "and because invisible and impalpable. in whom he creates Viraj. P. but the God of human dogma and his humanized "Word." merits quotation. the latter rather limited.theosociety. 5. and compare this with the esotericism of Chapters II. or Dhyan-
http://www. "What is that which was. called Primordial Man. and IV. or to have had a first cause outside. III. But. by what seems to be a spirit of conditioned positivism. "And yet could such a cause be found and defined. space must be admitted to be either Self-existent. behind. what is said of Space as "the Unknown First Cause. even viewed as an absolute void. however. "This unknown something.. and eternal. and beyond itself. thus recognised as.htm (8 von 21) [06. indeed.most of Mr. and will be. Proem
its undifferentiated to its differentiated surface of seven layers. the latter the female Vach. M.

the radiation of Mulaprakriti. an evident effect of Karma. . the outcome of these -. 304.htm (9 von 21) [06.. except in its disfigured Sabeanism as at present rendered by the archaeologists. . following in the line of Babylonian Magism.exoterically. as Potencies of Space. who have become Gods for men. Of course this Mulaprakriti is material to it. known or unknown to science. for the esoteric root or foundation is one -.the direct emanation of Mulaprakriti.* to practical purposes. inseparable. nor from applying Akasa.) Left in their symbolical disguise. As Mulaprakriti.are the Indian. as Vyakta. P.)
[[Vol. * In contradistinction to the manifested universe of matter. as in Genesis and the Pentateuch. Vishnu. then.called by Western alchemists Adam's Earth -.is applied by the Vedantins to Parabrahmam. to wit. it becomes differentiated and conditioned.
http://www. and Mulaprakriti is a sort of veil thrown over it. the term Mulaprakriti (from Mula. p." the Planetary Spirits of all nations. millenniums earlier than the Pater-AEther of the Greeks and Latins. comes the Jewish. Still they are expressed very philosophically. it is undifferentiated and eternal. etc. The oldest religions of the world -. passing over a number of religions that will be mentioned later. Page]] 11 PROEM. and septenary in esoteric teachings. the Elohim or "Sons of God." is the oldest dogma in Occultism. as in the Kabala. But this view does not prevent him from believing in its existence so long as it lasts. Proem
Chohans. and the Unknown revealers of the Unknown. exoterically. who knew better what their Pentateuch meant. Gupta Vidya and the Zohar. the Mazdean. 1. etc.
of a highly philosophical page in the World's Cosmogony. or the unmanifested primordial matter -. the initial four chapters of Genesis are the fragment
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] known Causeless Cause. (See Book III. VIII. He also regards the Adi-Sakti -. Matter is dual in religious metaphysics. esoterically. . and the Jews have certainly now the better of their traditional persecutors. and cause of human Maya. in her A'kasic form of the Universal Soul -. Blavatsky. in speaking of Mulaprakriti: "From its (the Logos') objective standpoint.The Secret Doctrine by H. Parabrahmam is an unconditioned and absolute reality. an ugly thorn in the side of science and logic. and the female aspect of the Creative Cause Brahma. as any material object is material to us." They are all found in Aryan philosophy personified by Visvakarman. says. like everything else in the universe. Parabrahmam appears to it as Mulaprakriti. according to Svetasvatara Upanishad. I." (Theosophist. and the Egyptian.05. . in the work referred to. the eternal Root of THAT. . vol 1. Indra." and prakriti. The above-named exoteric creeds will be explained in the light of the Universal doctrine as we proceed with it.theosociety. The author of the Four Lectures on the Bhagavad Gita. for one Mahamanvantara. Vol. It was a silent protest against their spoliation. and Devi Bhagavata Purana. Read by the light of the Zohar. Then comes the Chaldean. and under many unusual aspects.2003 03:30:32]
. "nature"). they are a nursery tale. connected as the World-Soul is with all natural phenomena. So are the "Force and Matter.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. "the root.. 8.as philosophically a Maya.. .entirely lost to the world now. To have let them serve as a prologue to Christianity was a cruel revenge on the part of the Rabbis. a collection of allegorical legends. the "Rishi-Prajapati" of the Hindus.

It expands and
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The Occult Catechism contains the following questions and answers: "What is it that ever is?" "Space. the three are one. and from within outwardly. This produces the periods of Evolution and Dissolution. for it is nowhere and everywhere. Page]] 12 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. hence finite. but during Evolution and Manwantara her garment is cold and radiant.The Secret Doctrine by H. it is the Vertical and the Horizontal. when it contracts.. when it is nowhere -. to the partial or local manvantara. The Germ is invisible and fiery." "Then. P. That which ever is is one. . When it expands the mother diffuses and scatters. the summit and base of the Father. ** Esoteric philosophy. Manwantara and Pralaya. who conceives. maya. the eternal Anupadaka. that which is ever being and becoming is also one: and this is Space. the two extremities of the Mother. . . "it proceeds from without inwardly. Cool Breath is the Mother.htm (10 von 21) [06. the Root (the plane of the circle) is cool."* "What is it that ever was?" "The Germ in the Root. there are three Eternals?" "No. to reform them at the Dawn (of the Day of Brahma. brings forth." then the process takes place [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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http://www.' It proceeds from without inwardly. or the great re-evolution after one of the complete periodical dissolutions of every compound form in Nature (from planet to molecule) into its ultimate essence or element. Hot Breath is the Father who devours the progeny of the many-faced Element (heterogeneous). as being something organised. vol 1. or Manvantara). that which ever was is one. regarding as Maya (or the illusion of ignorance) every finite thing." -. is accomplished by that force which is designated by the Occultists LIFE and by Science "energy." or formation of a planet. which may be a solar or even a planetary one. Blavatsky. *** By "centre. the One is the boundless plane of the Circle. manifesting a diameter only during the manvantaric periods. etc. ." a centre of energy or a Cosmic focus is meant."The One is an unbroken Circle (ring) with no circumference. forms.theosociety." "Explain.2003 03:30:32]
. oh Lanoo (disciple). the One is the indivisible point found nowhere.** one of the centres***). and receives them back into her bosom. 1.see farther on.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous)." "What is it that is ever coming and going?" "The Great Breath. must necessarily view in the same light every intra-Cosmic planet and body. when the so-called "Creation. perceived everywhere during those periods. and in its second portion. for the One is the Ring as also the rings that are within that Ring.e.05. the mother draws back and ingathers. Light in darkness and darkness in light: the 'Breath which is eternal. the Father and the Mother. when it is everywhere.
contracts (exhalation and inhalation)." refers in the first portion of the sentence to the dawn of the Mahamanvantaric period.(i. therefore.

it must be stated that Occult Science recognises Seven Cosmical Elements -. cause universal diffusion -. or is it an independent flash of inner perception that made him say half correctly. after a Solar Pralaya. appear as presentments during the 6th and 7th Races of this Round. Hence. Had Mr.
far more numerous than those known to Science) are simply conditional modifications and aspects of the ONE and only Element. the planet or planets begin their resurrection to life from within outwardly. Blavatsky. subtile out of gross. * It is curious to notice how. as we have seen. The Fifth Element.although he calls it by that name. is not the Ether hypothesised by Sir Isaac Newton -. as it will become visible in the air towards the end of our Fourth Round. cause universal concentration. in the evolutionary cycles of ideas.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. now advocated quite freely by Science. every atom being said to contain in itself creative energy of the divine breath. Page]] 13 PROEM.The Secret Doctrine by H.four entirely physical. . generating fluids out of solids. 482). The reader has to bear in mind that the Stanzas given treat only of the Cosmogony of our own planetary System and what is visible around it." the latter acts from without inwardly: after a minor pralaya. This latter is not Ether.2003 03:30:32]
. As Newton intuitionally says.theosociety. having associated it in his mind probably with the AEther.at the first flutter of manvantara. 1.produce now an immeasurable period during which the attracting forces predominating.in a refrigerated state. perhaps. being fixed in quantity (?). everything having remained in statu quo -. These latter will. Herbert Spencer read and studied ancient Hindu philosophers when he wrote a certain passage in his "First Principles" (p. the universally co-existent forces of attraction and repulsion which. and the fifth (Ether) semi-material." (Hypoth.alternate eras of Evolution and dissolution. to reign supreme over the others during the whole of the Fifth.* These seven elements with their numberless Sub-Elements
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[[Vol. and volatile out of fixed.htm (11 von 21) [06. . fixed things out of volatile. The remaining two are as yet absolutely beyond the range of human perception. and then an immeasurable period. Thus. during which the repulsive forces predominating. it would seem that the change in the distribution of Matter which Motion effects. and will become known in the 6th and 7th Rounds respectively. ancient thought seems to be reflected in modern speculation.05.* not even A'kasa but the Source of these. may all things be originated from Ether. "Nature is a perpetual circulatory worker. the indestructible Motion thereupon necessitates a reverse distribution. coming to a limit in whichever direction it is carried (?). Proem
For clearer understanding on the part of the general reader. . P. and BREATH "is everywhere. or when the preexisting material consists but of ONE Element. The secret teachings with regard to the Evolution of the Universal Kosmos cannot be given. and gross out of subtile. whereas after an absolute pralaya. "motion as well as matter. 1675). . so to say. necessitate rhythm in all minor changes throughout the Universe. however. "Father-Mother" of Antiquity. vol 1. also necessitate rhythm in the totality of its changes -. like the moon -. half incorrectly. Apparently.

theosociety. "unthinkable and unspeakable. It is beyond the range and reach of thought -. and on their clear apprehension depends the understanding of all that follows.The Secret Doctrine by H. conditioned. it is absolutely necessary that he should be made acquainted with the few fundamental conceptions which underlie and pervade the entire system of thought to which his attention is invited. and motion best symbolises change. diathermanous plastic matter. absolute Abstract Motion representing Unconditioned Consciousness. Boundless. In the former condition it is called the Sub-Root.
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* Whatever the views of physical Science upon the subject. vol 1. Moreover the Teachers say openly that not even the highest Dhyani-Chohans have ever penetrated the mysteries beyond those boundaries that separate the milliards of Solar systems from the "Central Sun." To render these ideas clearer to the general reader. This "Be-ness" is symbolised in the Secret Doctrine under two aspects. and there seem to be very few Initiates. Proem
highest minds in this age. even among the greatest. and is beyond all thought or speculation. after a "Night of Brahma. On the other.
The Secret Doctrine establishes three fundamental propositions: -(a) An Omnipresent.
http://www. immutable in its higher principles." as it is called. This Infinite and Eternal Cause -dimly formulated in the "Unconscious" and "Unknowable" of current European philosophy -. Therefore.in the words of Mandukya.of which Ether is the grossest form -. Page]] 14 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. cool. therefore no apology is required for asking the reader to make himself familiar with them first. since it transcends the power of human conception and could only be dwarfed by any human expression or similitude. representing bare subjectivity. correlative in its grossest aspects and portions. before entering on the perusal of the work itself." Before the reader proceeds to the consideration of the Stanzas from the Book of Dzyan which form the basis of the present work. or conceive of by itself. finite Being. These basic ideas are few in number. Occult Science has been teaching for ages that A'kasa -. it recalls "dead worlds to life. and in conjunction with radiant heat. relates only to our visible Kosmos. in its lower -. absolute abstract Space. let him set out with the postulate that there is one absolute Reality which antecedes all manifested. who are allowed to speculate upon this subject. 1. is.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. It is "Be-ness" rather than Being (in Sanskrit. a radiant.the DESTROYER. being. its essential characteristic. On the one hand." In its higher aspect it is the Soul of the World. cosmically.05. Sat).2003 03:30:32]
. P." It is of course devoid of all attributes and is essentially without any relation to manifested. creative in its physical nature.

duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or consciousness) and Matter. the Absolute) is the field of Absolute Consciousness. as to assert that the nature of the "First Cause." the "Eternal. Blavatsky."* which the Occultist more logically derives from the "Causeless Cause. and supplies the guiding intelligence in the vast scheme of cosmic Evolution. 1." a symbol sufficiently graphic to need no further elucidation. that the impersonal reality pervading
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. vol 1. It is the fons et origo of force and of all individual consciousness.theosociety.symbolised by finite intelligence as the theological Trinity.BE-NESS -." may be essentially the same as that of the Consciousness which wells up within us: in short. to be regarded. however. i.htm (13 von 21) [06. precosmic root-substance (Mulaprakriti) is that aspect of the Absolute which underlies all the objective planes of Nature. The "first" [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. Subject and Object. It may. This advance on his part brings him very near to the esoteric and Vedantin tenet.05. space.and therefore finite and conditioned.The Secret Doctrine by H. and of which conscious existence is a conditioned symbol. the first in time. Herbert Spencer has of late so far modified his Agnosticism.e. which constitute the basis of conditioned Being whether subjective or objective.
the Kosmos is the pure noumenon of thought.. however. But once that we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute Negation. then. Proem
This latter aspect of the one Reality. Just as pre-Cosmic Ideation is the root of all individual consciousness." and the "Unknowable. but as the two facets or aspects of the Absolute (Parabrahm)." Apart from Cosmic Substance. On the other hand. Page]] 15 PROEM. Hence it will be apparent that the contrast of these two aspects of the Absolute is essential to the existence of the "Manifested Universe. Cosmic Ideation could not
http://www.* Parabrahm (the One Reality. is also symbolised by the term "The Great Breath. so pre-Cosmic Substance is the substratum of matter in the various grades of its differentiation. Considering this metaphysical triad as the Root from which proceeds all manifestation. Thus. assist the student if a few further explanations are given here. that Essence which is out of all relation to conditioned existence.

SAT.05. from Cosmic Substance the several vehicles in which that consciousness is individualised and attains to self -. This something. which is. the Parabrahm of the Vedantins or the one Reality. regarded from the other side. * See Mr.) Spirit-matter.) The ABSOLUTE. in its various manifestations. there is "that" which links spirit to matter. and. which is." the "Rootless Root. (1.htm (14 von 21) [06. are but aspects of the One Unity in which they are synthesized. in the sense that Plato gives to this term. Proem
manifest as individual consciousness. at present unknown to Western speculation." and limits the "First Cause" to the Logos. Therefore.theosociety. for it is a manifestation. Page]] 16 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. while Fohat. subject to object. it is the intelligent medium. as it were. 1.
http://www. the impersonal. P. It is the "bridge" by which the "Ideas" existing in the "Divine Thought" are impressed on Cosmic substance as the "laws of Nature." therefore. the precursor of the "manifested. in the manifested Universe." This is the "First Cause. vol 1." February. Eastern Occultism calls the Abstract All the "Causeless One Cause. LIFE." the "Unconscious" of European Pantheists. (2. the "Thought Divine" transmitted and made manifest through the Dhyan Chohans. The "Manifested Universe. apart from Cosmic Ideation.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. since it is only through a vehicle** of matter that consciousness wells up as "I am I. the "Spirit of the Universe. unmanifested Logos. (3.) The first manifestation. is pervaded by duality. in philosophy. The following summary will afford a clearer idea to the reader. so. Again."
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." the Purusha and Prakriti. the animating principle electrifying every atom into life. or Cosmic Ideation.* the Architects of the visible World.
But just as the opposite poles of subject and object. ** Called in Sanskrit: "Upadhi. Blavatsky. is the mysterious link between Mind and Matter. the very essence of its EX-istence as "manifestation."
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has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara. being an indivisible part of the integral whole -. also called MAHA-BUDDHI. 1. the Universal World-Soul.) Cosmic Ideation. Moreover.a spark of the former -. and the obligatory pilgrimage for every Soul -. and then by self-induced and selfdevised efforts (checked by its Karma). no purely spiritual Buddhi (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle. vol 1.the Universal Spirit. during the whole term. Sleeping and Waking. -. up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha). -. of flux and reflux.) "The appearance and disappearance of Worlds is like a regular tidal ebb of flux and reflux. first by natural impulse. the latter being itself an aspect of the Unknown Root. In other words.") This second assertion of the Secret Doctrine is the absolute universality of that law of periodicity.) The Eternity of the Universe in toto as a boundless plane. periodically "the playground of numberless Universes incessantly manifesting and disappearing. its dual aspects in the conditioned Universe. from which it emanates. the basis of the intelligent operations in and of Nature.
of the Eye of Self-Existence (Book of Dzyan. and into which it is absorbed at the end of the cycle. Proem
(4.. that it is easy to comprehend that in it we see one of the absolutely fundamental laws of the universe." and the "sparks of Eternity. so perfectly universal and without exception. Seraphs. "Days and Nights of Brahma.through the Cycle of Incarnation (or "Necessity") in accordance with Cyclic and Karmic law. from mineral and plant. ** "Pilgrim" is the appellation given to our Monad (the two in one) during its cycle of incarnations.2003 03:30:32]
. Blavatsky." called "the manifesting stars. It is the only immortal and eternal principle in us.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. Life and Death. etc.theosociety. P. from the lowest to the highest Manas. the Secret Doctrine affirms: -(b. thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence. the Cosmic Noumenon of Matter. An alternation such as that of Day and Night..The Secret Doctrine by H. and (b) acquired individuality." "The Eternity of the Pilgrim"** is like a wink
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. the only reality in the Universe whether Cosmical or micro-cosmical. After Pralaya. hypostases) of that which "does
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] spirit.the variously differentiated aspects -." "Bodhisatvas and Reincarnation. and with their occultists. 1. the Eastern and Western Pantheists. save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations. the six principles in Nature being all the outcome -. is left to the Vedantins themselves.
[[Vol.) In the Kabala it is also FatherMother-Son. is that seventh principle or the one Reality. vol 1. Hari. etc. The Vedantins call it Sutratma (Thread-Soul). This is why the Hindus say that the Universe is Brahma and Brahmâ. or the plane on the surface of the Circle. and are the three divine Avasthas (lit. Father-Mother. (See Comments.. on the plane of manifestation and form. Jah-Havah. the Spirit and Soul of Ether.
antiphrasis as illusive and Mayavic. P.or primal radiation -. whether the great or the minor Pralaya (the latter leaving the worlds in statu quo*). synthesize their pregenetic triad in the pure divine abstraction. and FatherMother at the first stage of re-awakening. the triad branching off and dividing into the seven cosmical and seven human principles.are the purely metaphysical abstract qualities of formation. Soul.htm (16 von 21) [06. in the Western Kabala of the Christian mystics it is the Triad or Trinity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. (See.The Secret Doctrine by H. and destruction. however. Its periodical (manvantaric) emanation -. to become male and female principles in their lower aspects. Page]] 18 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. androgynous and phenomenally finite. Addendum "Gods.) In its absoluteness. unconditioned and eternal. anthropomorphize it. to explain which difference. for Brahma is in every atom of the universe.the three hypostases of the manifesting "Spirit of the Supreme Spirit" (by which title Prithivi -. and Sankara -. The Mystics and the Philosophers. or its "Atma-Buddhi-Manas" (Spirit.of the SEVENTH and ONE. When the radiation radiates in its turn.the Earth -greets Vishnu in his first Avatar) -." etc.is also One. preservation. Intelligence). differs somewhat from that of the occultists. Space is called the "Mother" before its Cosmic activity. the male-female Jehovah. in its manifested phenomenal and temporary appearance. Monads and Atoms. Stanza II. Proem
The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man. and also why the permutations (psychic. these are the Seventh Principle of the manifested Universe. an awkward and incorrect expression has to be used.05. For although the root of every atom individually and of every form collectively. spiritual and physical). In this lies the whole difference between the esoteric and the Christian trinities.

" something "conceived of.never Science or philosophy -. as the best known of the Rosicrucians' symbols. Blavatsky. however. in Occultism. which we are obliged to recognise as without limit in Space and without beginning or end in time. Proem
* It is not the physical organisms that remain in statu quo. This sign was universal.
[[Vol. by reason of erroneous appearances.the real creed of the Brothers of the Rosie-Cross and a direct outcome from the Eastern
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http://www.05. and show as the symbol of pregenetic Kosmos this sign . is an unknown and unknowable power. under these sensible appearances which the Universe presents to us. however. who. from the most important." the great mystery of occult generation. a name of Vishnu). "that which persists unchanging in quantity. caught and embedded in the polar ice. Page]] 19 PROEM. from whence the name -. It is that of the "Pelican" tearing open its breast to feed its seven little ones -. is the leading aspect of the Supreme Brahma." Kronos is shown in the Orphic theogony as being also a generated god or agent. therefore we find it in the Kabala also.Prakriti. "That Brahma in its totality has essentially the aspect of Prakriti. 1." But during the minor pralayas.htm (17 von 21) [06. as a huge animal.theosociety. there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern mystics. and also the aspect of Spirit and the aspect of Time. O twice born. and hence lands his readers on the bleak shore of Agnostic despair -reverently formulates the grand mystery. with the orthodox. At this stage of the re-awakening of the Universe.Rosicrucians (Rose Cross)! As may be judged. remains the same for ages. during the great Cosmic or even Solar pralayas. ignores it altogether. the perfect Cube. The latter." the planets remain intact. The Western Kabala.The Secret Doctrine by H. now in the hands of Christian mystics. though it is plainly shown in the Zohar. and is the time last. nevertheless. -. like Schopenhauer and von Hartmann." and explained as arising from the illusive conception of the Egotistic personal and human Soul (lower fifth principle). calling it "the Union of the Rose and Cross. P. as a material form. is the abstract Triangle.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. The creative god or the aggregate gods are regarded by the Eastern philosopher as Bhrantidarsanatah -"false apprehension. the sacred symbolism represents it as a perfect Circle with the (root) point in the Centre.2003 03:30:32]
. both evolved and unevolved.* The next is a twofold aspect.
not perish with created things" (or Achyuta. only reflects an aspect of the old esoteric philosophers. both evolved and unevolved (Mulaprakriti). least of all their psychical principles. though dead. and admits of no higher Deity. These sectarians begin at the end. once over-taken by the "Night. It is beautifully expressed in a new translation of Vishnu Purana.

Let it be understood that the terms Brahma and Parabrahmam are not used here because they belong to our Esoteric nomenclature. as explained by Western Orientalists. their consciousness is limited. The Stanzas. meaning. till the mind reels and is exhausted in the effort. by placing before him in a few words the general conception therein explained. so to say.
that of the chain of planets of which that earth forms one. and so is Brahma.htm (18 von 21) [06. 1. mutatis mutandis. and the One "All in all. in fact. and describe the seven great stages of the evolutionary process." Such are the basic conceptions on which the Secret Doctrine rests. to the subject matter of the Stanzas as given in this volume. they will need no further justification in his eyes.theosociety. the Eternal Swan or goose (see Stanza III. the abstract algebraical formula of that Evolution. it is Brahma (neuter) who ought to be referred to as Hansavahana (He who uses the swan as his Vehicle) and not Brahma the Creator. but simply because they are more familiar to the students in the West.
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[[Vol. as traced in the Stanzas. Stanza I. They refer to. for the moment.. and so on. nor can I pause to show how they are. which are spoken of in the Puranas as the "Seven Creations. the Creator. It would not be in place here to enter upon any defence or proof of their inherent reasonableness.05. I pass on. which stand for the ONE ALL. three. Page]] 21 PROEM. who is the real Kalahansa. A great mistake is thus brought under notice. in the hope of thereby rendering the task of the student more easy." and in the Bible as the "Days" of Creation.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. P. Both are the perfect equivalents of our one. Hence the student must not expect to find there an account of all the stages and transformations which intervene between the first beginnings of "Universal" evolution and our present state. because their truth will be to him as evident as the sun in heaven. The seven Stanzas given in this volume represent the seven terms of this abstract formula. adding a skeleton outline of them.though too often under a misleading guise -. in an ascending scale. therefore. Proem
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as the remotest limits attainable by their power of conception. The subsequent stages in the formation of a "World" are indicated in Stanza VI. as far as he can. before the first flutter of reawakening manifestation. A moment's thought shows that such a state can only be symbolised." the first stage in the formation of a nebula. Hence that state can only be suggested by the negatives of all those most abstract attributes which men feel rather than conceive. it can possess none of those specific attributes which serve us to describe objects in positive terms. Nor can it be symbolised except in negatives. That nebula condenses.
into the septenary hierarchy of conscious Divine Powers. Blavatsky. they inform and guide it. Stanza III. diffused Cosmic Matter. They are the framers.The Secret Doctrine by H. which we know as "The Laws of Nature. in the only sense in which the name "Creator" is intelligible." Generically. to describe it is impossible. so nearly identical with that mentioned in the first Stanza. to a western mind .. This stage of evolution is spoken of in Hindu mythology as the "Creation" of the Gods. vol 1. shows the differentiation of the "Germ" of the Universe
[[Vol. who are the active manifestations of the One Supreme Energy. The stage described in Stanza II. is. as the case may be. the earliest and highest stage in the formation of "Worlds. since it is the state of Absoluteness per se. embodying in themselves those manifestations of the ONE LAW. It depicts the emergence of the "Monads" from thei[[r]] state of absorption within the ONE. and ultimately the creators of all the manifested Universe. describes the Re-awakening of the Universe to life after Pralaya.htm (19 von 21) [06. the meaning of the allegorical phrases used. that to express the idea of its difference would require a treatise in itself. Page]] 22 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.theosociety. Hence it must be left to the intuition and the higher faculties of the reader to grasp. then the fiery "whirlwind. shapers. P.05.2003 03:30:32]
. for. they are known as the Dhyan Chohans. forms a Solar Universe. Stanza IV. In Stanza V. they are the intelligent Beings who adjust and control evolution. and after passing through various transformations. or a single planet. Proem
--------------------The First Stanza describes the state of the ONE ALL during Pralaya.First. 1. the process of world-formation is described: --." the term Monad being one which may apply equally to the vastest Solar System or the tiniest atom. Indeed it must be remembered that all these Stanzas appeal to the inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the physical brain.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-0-pr. a planetary chain. which brings the
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Needless to remind the reader that these are. but all such terms are rendered in their Sanskrit form. and pertain to the Fifth Root-Race. Extracts are given from the Chinese Thibetan and Sanskrit translations of the original Senzar Commentaries and Glosses on the Book of DZYAN -. Zodmanas zhiba. Nor is there any need to assure the reader that. Thyan-Kam not. was not spoken by the Atlanteans. it was thought best to blend together texts and glosses.these being now rendered for the first time into a European language. Were they published complete they would remain incomprehensible to all save the few higher occultists. To facilitate the reading. &c. Sanskrit.htm (20 von 21) [06..The Secret Doctrine by H. Barnang and Ssa in Ngovonyidj. and most of the philosophical terms used in the systems of the India of the post-Mahabharatan period are not found in the Vedas. Stanza VII. does the writer. vol 1. P. &c. were one to translate into English. in preference to giving the originals. using only the substantives and technical terms as employed in one of the Tibetan and Senzar versions. Lha-Chohan not. as it would be worse
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evolution of such a world down to its fourth great period. or rather the humble recorder. Page]] 23 PROEM. as now known. and thus closes the first Book of the Secret Doctrine.. Dharmakaya ceased. All Nyug bosom. As this work is written for the instruction of students of Occultism. tracing the descent of life down to the appearance of Man. Verse I would read as follows: --. The more so as the said terms are all accepted synonyms. no more than most of the profane. nor are they to be met with in
http://www. understand those forbidden passages. --------------------NOTE. It is almost unnecessary to state that only portions of the seven Stanzas are here given. in almost every case." which would sound like pure Abracadabra. and not for the benefit of philologists. The untranslateable terms alone. alone Tho-og Yinsin in night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna).
The Stanzas which form the thesis of every section are given throughout in their modern translated version. corresponding to the period in which we are now living. Thus. continues the history. Konch-hog not. incomprehensible unless explained in their meanings."Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Tgenchang not become. using the Sanskrit and Tibetan proper names whenever those cannot be avoided.
than useless to make the subject still more difficult by introducing the archaic phraseology of the original. we may well avoid such foreign terms wherever it is possible to do so.theosociety. the late developments of the later language. 1. the former only being used between a Master and his chelas (or disciples).05.2003 03:30:32]
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Who knows the secret? who proclaimed it here? Whence.Vol... one nature. What covered all? what sheltered? what concealed? Was it the water's fathomless abyss? There was not death -..The Secret Doctrine by H. whence all this great creation came. The Most High Seer that is in highest heaven.. There was no confine betwixt day and night."
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THE UNIVERSE WAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE DIVINE THOUGHT AND THE DIVINE BOSOM. SVABHAVAT. EXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT. THE MATRIPADMA HAD NOT YET SWOLLEN. AS THREE INTO FOUR. . AND SVABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS. AND THE GERM IS ONE. THE LUMINOUS SONS OF MANVANTARIC DAWN? . P. ALONE THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED BOUNDLESS. ------STANZA III. THE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK. . . 9. 1. 6. INFINITE.THE ROOT OF THE WORLD -. RESTED IN THE BLISS OF NON-BEING.htm (3 von 10) [06. THERE WAS NEITHER SILENCE NOR SOUND. 4. DARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER. NAUGHT SAVE CEASELESS ETERNAL BREATH. WHICH KNOWS ITSELF NOT. . WHERE WAS SILENCE? WHERE THE EARS TO SENSE IT? NO. 2.
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AND THE LOWER ONE TO ITS SHADOWY END. BEHOLD HIM LIFTING THE VEIL AND UNFURLING IT FROM EAST TO WEST. CURDLES AND SPREADS IN MILK-WHITE CURDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER.
4. IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE. WHICH EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT DARK WATERS. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE. THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER.
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BREATHES OVER THE SLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE. WHICH CONDENSES INTO THE WORLD-EGG. LIGHT IS COLD FLAME. HE IS THE BLAZING DIVINE DRAGON OF WISDOM. 10. THEN THE THREE FALL INTO THE FOUR. 6.2003 03:30:35]
. AND TURNS THE UPPER INTO A SHORELESS SEA OF FIRE. 1. AND MOTION. 8. AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT. IT IS OEAOHOO THE YOUNGER. THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY. WHERE WAS THE GERM AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS? WHERE IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FLAME THAT BURNS IN THY LAMP. 3. 7. OH LANOO! THE RADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO.THE LIGHT OF THE ONE DARKNESS -. HE SHUTS OUT THE ABOVE. THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-01. AND STILL OEAOHOO IS ONE. SEVEN OUTSIDE. Blavatsky. THE CURDS REMAIN. . IN WHOM ARE THE SEVEN WHICH BECOME THE TRIDASA (OR THE HOSTS AND THE MULTITUDES). THE * * * HE SHINES FORTH AS THE SON. THE LIGHT REMAINS. 5. THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OF THE DARK HIDDEN FATHER. THE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN EGG. WHICH IN ITSELF IS THREE. THE ROOT THAT GROWS IN THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEAN OF LIFE. DARKNESS RADIATES LIGHT. AND FOUR TAKES TO ITSELF THREE.05. THE ROOT REMAINS. OR FATHER AND MOTHER. THE UNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY: BRIGHT SPACE SON OF DARK SPACE. 9. AND THE ONE MANIFESTED INTO THE GREAT WATERS. FATHER-MOTHER SPIN A WEB WHOSE UPPER END IS FASTENED TO SPIRIT -.
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THE SPARKS.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-01. AND THE FORCE OF DIVINE MAN -THE SUM TOTAL. THEN THE SONS DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER. Vol 1. 4. AND REBECOME ONE WITH HER. AND THE FIVE. etc. IT EXPANDS WHEN THE BREATH OF FIRE IS UPON IT. .THE SONS OF THE FIRE. EACH IS A PART OF THE WEB. AND THIS WEB IS THE UNIVERSE SPUN OUT OF THE TWO SUBSTANCES MADE IN ONE. THE NUMBERS. THE ONE. HAVE LEARNT FROM OUR FATHERS. THE ELEMENTS. YE SONS OF THE EARTH. 3. THEN SVABHAVAT SENDS FOHAT TO HARDEN THE ATOMS. AND THE SERVANTS OF. THE SPARKS OF THE SEVEN ARE SUBJECT TO.theosociety. etc.. 1. THE
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MATTER. THE ONE FROM THE EGG. . THEY EMBRACE INFINITUDE. P. Eka. Page]] 30 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. WE WHO ARE BORN FROM THE PRIMORDIAL FLAME. TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE GREAT DAY. TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -. EACH BECOMES IN TURN A WORLD. THE RUPA. THERE IS NEITHER FIRST NOR LAST. THIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE -.THE DIVINE MOTHER OF THE SEVEN. 12.2003 03:30:35]
. WHICH IS SVABHAVAT.SPRUNG IN SPACE THE RE-AWAKENED ENERGIES. .05.THE TWICE SEVEN THE SUM TOTAL.htm (5 von 10) [06. LEARN. THE BUILDERS. It was thought best to give them in English. ------STANZA IV. REFLECTING THE "SELF-EXISTENT LORD" LIKE A MIRROR. THE ARUPA. AND THE SONS EXPAND AND CONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS. WHEN IT IS COOLING IT BECOMES RADIANT. Blavatsky. . FROM THE EFFULGENCY OF LIGHT -. THE FIRST.
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FOHAT IS THE STEED AND THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER. AND JOINS THEM. THE REJECTED SON IS ONE. THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN. P. HE IS THEIR GUIDING SPIRIT AND LEADER. HE PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING THROUGH THE FIERY CLOUDS. THE EIGHTH LEFT OUT. THE THIRD. CUBES. Blavatsky. 2. AND FORMS THEREWITH THE GERMS OF WHEELS. THE "FORMLESS SQUARE. AND THE
TEN ARE THE ARUPA UNIVERSE. THE FIRST SEVEN BREATHS OF THE DRAGON OF WISDOM. THE ONE. AND THE SEVEN BELOW. 3. AND ONE IN THE MIDDLE -. WHICH IS:
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. FOR HE IS ONE AND NINE." THE SEVEN FIGHTERS. THE VOICE OF THE LORD SVABHAVAT. HE PLACES THEM IN THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE. THE NUMBERS. 1.
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1. THEN THE SECOND SEVEN. III. THE FOURTH. Page]] 31 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." AND THESE THREE ENCLOSED WITHIN THE ARE THE SACRED FOUR. WHO ARE THE LIPIKA. PRODUCED BY THE THREE. "DARKNESS" THE BOUNDLESS.htm (6 von 10) [06. TAKES THREE. ADI-NIDANA SVABHAVAT: -I. Stanzas of Dzyan
SECOND. OR THE NO-NUMBER. Vol 1. AND THE SEVENTH OF THE SEVEN. AND SEVEN STRIDES THROUGH THE SEVEN REGIONS ABOVE. AND HIS BREATH WHICH IS THE LIGHT-MAKER. FOR THUS STANDS THE ETERNAL NIDANA -. HE SEPARATES THE SPARKS OF THE LOWER KINGDOM THAT FLOAT AND THRILL WITH JOY IN THEIR RADIANT DWELLINGS. THE ADI-SANAT. RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS. THEN COME THE "SONS.THE CENTRAL WHEEL. ------STANZA V. THE FIFTH. THE DZYU BECOMES FOHAT. TRIANGLES. THE NUMBER.THE OEAOHOO.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-01.
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[[Vol.THE "TRIPLE" OF KWAN-SHAI-YIN. THE LIPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE TRIANGLE. HAVING CALLED FORTH. THEY SAY: THIS IS GOOD. is of a far later date than the other Stanzas. ONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER. Blavatsky. FOR THE FOUR HOLY ONES AND THEIR ARMIES. THE WHEELS WATCH THE RING. AND THE LIPIKA IN THE MIDDLE WHEEL. FOUR PRODUCED. SIX CONCEALED. THE SECOND ONE.05. ALSO FOR THOSE WHO DURING THE KALPA ARE PROGRESSING TOWARDS THE GREAT DAY "BE WITH US. TWO MANIFESTED. FOHAT. AND THE PENTACLE WITHIN THE EGG. 6. THE CUBE. . LASTLY.
1. . THREE MANIFESTED. THE BREATH OF THEIR PROGENY. ONE LAID ASIDE. 3. FIVE CONCEALED. OF THE SEVEN -.The Secret Doctrine by H. TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED." AND SEATS THE UNIVERSE ON THESE ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS SURROUNDING TSIEN-TCHAN WITH THE ELEMENTARY GERMS. 5.FIRST ONE MANIFESTED. FOHAT TRACES SPIRAL LINES TO UNITE THE SIXTH TO THE SEVENTH -. ------STANZA VI. 1. FOUR CONCEALED. RESIDING IN KWAN-YIN-TIEN. THE SON OF THE SONS. SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING. SEVEN TIMES SEVEN LIGHTS. Page]] 32 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
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. THE FIRST ONE.KWAN-YIN -." THUS WERE FORMED THE RUPA AND THE ARUPA: FROM ONE LIGHT SEVEN LIGHTS. SIX TO BE MANIFESTED. FOUR AND ONE TSAN REVEALED. . BY THE POWER OF THE MOTHER OF MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE -. THREE HIDDEN. THEN THE "DIVINE ARUPA" REFLECTS ITSELF IN CHHAYA LOKA. FOHAT TAKES FIVE STRIDES AND BUILDS A WINGED WHEEL AT EACH CORNER OF THE SQUARE. THE SWIFT AND RADIANT ONE PRODUCES THE SEVEN LAYA CENTRES. AGAINST WHICH NONE WILL PREVAIL TO THE GREAT DAY "BE-WITH-US. THE FIRST GARMENT OF THE ANUPADAKA. IT IS THE RING CALLED "PASS NOT" FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND.

THE SONS ARE TOLD TO CREATE THEIR IMAGES. THEY ARE COLD. . AND THE SEVEN. Stanzas of Dzyan
text of this verse. BEHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE. ITS FOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER. THE SHINING SEVEN. PLACING THEM ON THE IMPERISHABLE CENTRES. RUNS THROUGH THEM. AND BATTLES FOUGHT FOR SPACE. HE MAKES THEM HOT. 7. IF THOU WOULDEST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE OF THY SMALL WHEEL. HOW DOES FOHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. FOR THOU SHALT SEE . HE BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS. DURING SEVEN ETERNITIES. ------STANZA VII. AND THE FIVE FROM WHICH THE THREE. THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT.theosociety. LANOO.TWO OBEY. SOME THE OTHER WAY. THE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED. SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING. THE FIVE. THUS ACTS FOHAT FROM ONE TWILIGHT TO THE OTHER. THERE WERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CREATORS AND THE DESTROYERS. THE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARDS AND UPWARDS. .
4. ME. INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO THEN' SETS THEM INTO MOTION. THEY WILL BE BORN ON THE FOURTH. WHO WATCH OVER THEE. AT THE FOURTH.The Secret Doctrine by H. ONE THIRD REFUSES -. THEY. THEN THE SPIRITUAL. SOME ONE WAY.
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1. AND THOU SHALT COMPREHEND. THE THREE FROM THE ONE. OH LANOO. THEY ARE DRY. THIS IS THE FIRST WAR. THEY SHINE. MAKE THY CALCULATIONS. Blavatsky. THESE ARE THE THREE-FOLD. AND ROUND THEM. IT IS THEY WHO ARE THOU. having names entirely unknown to the Orientalists would give no clue to the student. 5. THE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE. Page]] 33 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 1. HE FANS AND COOLS THEM. FIRST THE DIVINE. . THE SEED APPEARING AND RE-APPEARING CONTINUOUSLY. THE FOUR-FOLD DOWNWARD. . .2003 03:30:35]
. HIM. . THE FOUR FROM THE ONE. 6.05.
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THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS. THYSELF AND ME. WHO FORMS HIM? THE SEVEN LIVES.05. THE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS. HAVING DONNED THEIR FIRST CLOTHING. to make sense out of this apparent NON-SENSE. AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM OF FORM. almost incomprehensible. WHO COMPLETES HIM? THE FIVE-FOLD LHA. SAID THE FLAME TO THE SPARK. Blavatsky. DESCEND ON RADIANT EARTH AND REIGN OVER MEN -. FROM THE COMBINED ATTRIBUTES OF THESE. THE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS.
[[Vol. Thus ends this portion of the archaic narrative. THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN CHANGES AND BECOMES A SACRED ANIMAL.WHO ARE THEMSELVES.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-01. WHEN THE ONE BECOMES TWO. THAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN -. THE THINKER IS FORMED. IT JOURNEYS THROUGH THE SEVEN WORLDS OF MAYA. . OH LANOO. THE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT CALLED SAPTASARMA. AND THE ONE LIFE. 3. THIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL. . . 1.A PLANT. Vol 1. THOU ART MYSELF. IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND AND BEHOLD -. THE ONE. .2003 03:30:35]
. An attempt will now be made to throw light into this darkness. 4. MY IMAGE. THE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF FOHAT.THEIR FLAME -. .theosociety. AND IS A METAL AND A STONE.THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE RUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF EARTH. SIN. . THE MORNING SUN-LIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOON-DAY GLORY. . AND IT IS OUR THREAD. . AND THOU ART MY VAHAN TO THE DAY. THE THREEFOLD APPEARS. 7.
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the term sempiternity. and is co-eternal and even one with Space in its abstract sense. (a) By the Seven "Eternities.the incomprehensible DEITY. 1. but both. immovable in its abstraction and uninfluenced by either the presence or absence in it of an objective Universe." aeons or periods are meant.Vol. It is without dimension. Root-nature is also the source of the subtile invisible properties in visible matter. and were unknown till the advent of ecclesiastical Christianity. Page]] 35 STANZA I. and say that it is the primordial substance.2003 03:30:38]
. but the spiritual essence of matter. It is not matter as we know it. Blavatsky. Vol 1. Spirit is the first differentiation from THAT. nor is
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The Secret Doctrine by H. STANZA I. and self-existent. IN STANZAS AND SLOKAS. whose "invisible robes" are the mystic root of all matter. so to say.theosociety. It is the source from which Akasa radiates. bk 1. of a Manvantara. (See Proem pp.) Thus. ACCORDING TO THEIR NUMERATION. except in its application to the ONE existence. 1. the "Robes" stand for the noumenon of undifferentiated Cosmic Matter. ever present cause of all -. the causeless cause of both Spirit and Matter. of the ONE infinite Spirit. The Hindus call it Mulaprakriti. whether physical. has no meaning to the Asiatic ear. Space is the one eternal thing that we can most easily imagine.The Secret Doctrine by H. nor conditioned fulness. 1. P. anything better than a misnomer.

Continued. in which. for nothing remains without change -.000 is the number ten to the third power. The key to this cannot be given. 1. the translator.or the same -. from that part which we call the past.htm (2 von 15) [06. but "lies asleep.for the billionth part of a second. according to the Vedas." and Wilson. viii." The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future. but is composed of the sum of all its various and changing conditions from its appearance in the material form to its disappearance from the earth." and pass
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. "is the great number of the Divine Mysteries. and therefore the number 7." And Esoteric philosophy says: They "perish" not.
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* It is stated in Book II.000. is all that is to be understood of the immortality (or eternity) of the gods. and a "Day of Brahma" consisting of 4.theosociety. or representing all the different cycles from the greatest to the smallest -. x varying according to the nature of the cycle in the subjective or real world.000 of years. "The number seven.. The real person or thing does not consist solely of what is seen at any particular moment. FOR IT LAY ASLEEP IN THE INFINITE BOSOM OF DURATION (a).must necessarily be multiples of seven." number ten is that of all human knowledge (Pythagorean decade). Vol 1.320.The Secret Doctrine by H.
(a) Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration. Nothing on earth has real duration. of Vishnu Purana: "By immortality is meant existence to the end of the Kalpa. and the sensation we have of the actuality of the division of "time" known as the present.000 is also symbolical. by reason of the blurred and continuing impression on the retina.05. It is these "sum-totals" that exist from eternity in the "future. on the plane of matter the 3 is the masculine and the 4 the female: the upright and the horizontal in the fourth stage of symbolism." and of the same number of "nights" of Brahma (reckoning by the Chandrayana or lunar year). every figure must be 7x (7 to the power of x). Blavatsky. stanza 1
100 years of Brahma -. as those things pass from the region of ideals which we call the future. Page]] 37 TIME AND UNIVERSAL MIND. each year of Brahma being composed of 360 "days. of things that our senses give us. 2. and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced." says the Kabala. they perish at the end of universal dissolution (or Pralaya). ------STANZA I. for herein lies the mystery of esoteric calculations. and for the purposes of ordinary calculation it has no sense. to the region of memories that we name the past.

at the same time. They are the Intelligent Forces that give to and enact in Nature her "laws. and Feeling. This hierarchy of spiritual Beings. and that the bar itself consisted only of that cross-section thereof which at any given moment coincided with the mathematical plane that separates. THE GREAT CAUSES
http://www. Will. . and during the long night of rest called Pralaya.the Angelic Hosts of Christianity. FOR THERE WERE NO AH-HI (celestial beings) TO CONTAIN (hence to manifest) IT (a).present momentarily to our senses a cross-section. and memory is in abeyance. each contained in a larger individuality.by means of which the fighting power of a nation manifests itself. brigades. joins. 4. ideation ceases on the physical plane.
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(a) Mind is a name given to the sum of the states of Consciousness grouped under Thought. which. P. THE SEVEN WAYS TO BLISS (Moksha* or Nirvana) WERE NOT (a). as they pass through time and space (as matter) on their way from one eternity to another: and these two constitute that "duration" in which alone anything has true existence. as erroneously thought. and so forth. -." while themselves acting according to laws imposed upon them in a similar manner by still higher Powers.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. ------STANZA I. is like an army -. through which the Universal Mind comes into action. the atmosphere and the ocean. through which the Ego manifests ideation and memory on the material plane. to exist for eternity in the "past.05. divisions. the Elohim and "Messengers" of the Jews -. when all the existences are dissolved.2003 03:30:38]
. out of the future into the past -. Blavatsky. stanza 1
by degrees through matter. The AH-HI (Dhyan-Chohans) are the collective hosts of spiritual beings -." No one could say that a bar of metal dropped into the sea came into existence as it left the air. -.Continued." truly -. and its limited freedom of action and limited responsibilities.a "Host. to which its own interests are subservient.Continued. or as that abstract absolute thought. A noumenon can become a phenomenon on any plane of existence only by manifesting on that plane through an appropriate basis or vehicle. each with its separate individuality or life. of which mind is the concrete relative manifestation.theosociety. . has temporarily ceased to function. and each containing lesser individualities in itself. and ceased to exist as it entered the water. 1.

reality. Yana. P. since the appearance which the hidden noumenon assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition. are. bk 1. and a cause. while an educated eye sees instantly a face or a landscape.The Secret Doctrine by H. in degree. Death itself being unable to deliver man from it. and the things cognised are therefore as real to him as himself. (a) There are seven "Paths" or "Ways" to the bliss of Non-Exist[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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ence. II). because the Universe was. misery and pain.
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OF MISERY (Nidana** and Maya) WERE NOT.* They belong to the theory of the stream of catenated law which produces merit and demerit. It is based upon the great truth that re-incarnation is to be dreaded. To the untrained eye of the savage. The existences belonging to every plane of being. having originated after the death of Buddha. as existence in this world only entails upon man suffering. since death is merely the door through which he passes to another life on earth after a little rest on its threshold -Devachan. for everything that exists has only a relative. FOR THERE WAS NO ONE TO PRODUCE AND GET ENSNARED BY THEM (b). the sum total of the Nidanas being based on the four truths. a doctrine especially characteristic of the Hinayana System. or Moksha in India. 1. which is absolute Being. while the Mahayana is of a later period. They were not. .2003 03:30:38]
. to its successor. and Consciousness. both "vehicles" inculcating that man may escape the sufferings of rebirths and even the false bliss of Devachan. of the nature of shadows cast by a magic lantern on a colourless screen. effects generated by a concatenation of causes produced (see Comment. which alone can dispel the Fruits of Illusion and Ignorance. ** The "12" Nidanas (in Tibetan Ten-brel chug-nyi) the chief causes of existence. not an absolute. and existed only in the Divine Thought. Neibban in Burmah. by obtaining Wisdom and Knowledge. The Hinayana System.

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* See Wassilief on Buddhism. Vol 1. bk 1. Page]] 40 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.The Secret Doctrine by H. The "Great Wheel" is the whole duration of our Cycle of being. pp. in the instance of primordial light.. or to light to make it darkness. DARKNESS ALONE FILLED THE BOUNDLESS ALL (a).
before or after they have passed like a flash through the material world. it can be but of a temporary mayavic character. that source is unknown.theosociety. -. ------STANZA I.Continued.2003 03:30:38]
.05. though as strongly demanded by reason and logic. the "Small Wheels" meaning the Rounds. i. They are interchangeable. Page]] 41 WHAT IS DARKNESS IN PHILOSOPHY?
matrix in which the sources of light appear and disappear.e. Nothing is added to darkness to make of it light. our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities. 97-950. from an intellectual point of view. 5. at last. each advance bringing with it the idea that now. which shows that the ancients were aware that our Earth was a revolving globe. whatever its source. Blavatsky. Yet both are phenomena of the same noumenon --
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[[Vol. therefore it is called "Darkness" by us. not a motionless square as some Christian Fathers taught. and scientifically light is but a mode of darkness and vice versa. then. we have reached "reality. Darkness. both we and the things belonging to that plane are. for the time being. Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in. and blended our own with it. P.
[[Vol. MOTHER AND SON WERE ONCE MORE ONE. the whole revolution of our special chain of seven planets or Spheres from beginning to end. 1. of which there are also Seven. (a) "Darkness is Father-Mother: light their son. AND THE SON HAD NOT AWAKENED YET FOR THE NEW WHEEL* AND HIS PILGRIMAGE THEREON (b)." says an old Eastern proverb. shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya. FOR FATHER. and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings. Light is inconceivable except as coming from some source which is the cause of it. or Maha Kalpa.

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. What is light to us is darkness to certain insects.there was neither centre of luminosity. nor eye to perceive light. In the cosmicophysical sense. "Karana" -. How far we discern the light that shines in darkness depends upon our powers of vision. in a less allegorical aspect.the symbol of the Universe. They are "once more One" when in "The Night of Brahma. Paranirvana. which is the commencement of a new "Day" or new activity of Brahma -. which is Yong-Grub) TO BE OUT-BREATHED BY THAT WHICH IS AND YET IS NOT. Blavatsky.was alone.as it does periodically. P. the resultant of which is the Universe. is allowed in dogmatic Latin theology to watch over all the promontories and gulfs. all in the objective Universe has returned to its one primal and eternal cause. and but a gray twilight to the perception of the average mystic." during Pralaya. though to that of the spiritual eye of the Initiate it is absolute light. Page]] 42 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. §: "Days and Nights of Brahma. and each attribute or quality being a graduated efflux of Divine Breath in its cyclic differentiation. and Man -.theosociety. 6." The previous objective Universe has dissolved into its one primal and eternal cause. or Spirit. four only have been handed to us. the human correspondents of the Dhyani-Buddhas (of whom vide infra) during every Round and Race. It is the same hierarchy of Archangels to which St. (b) The Father-Mother are the male and female principles in root-nature. or the Son. the Dhyan-Chohans. as we are still in the Fourth Round. for instance. They are. and darkness necessarily filled the boundless all. the opposite poles that manifest in all things on every plane of Kosmos. 1. THE SEVEN SUBLIME LORDS AND THE SEVEN TRUTHS HAD CEASED TO BE (a).eternal cause -. -. so to say. In esoteric parlance. and others belong. and the eye of the clairvoyant sees illumination where the normal eye perceives only blackness.(See Part II. involutionary and evolutionary.Continued.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. Out of the Seven Truths and Revelations. held in solution in space. Gabriel. THE SON OF NECESSITY. or rather revealed secrets. Planetary Spirit.The Secret Doctrine by H.htm (6 von 15) [06. bk 1. Michael. Michael. and is. When the whole universe was plunged in sleep -. to reappear at the following Dawn -.the Son of the two. St. and the world also has only had four Buddhas. (a) The seven sublime lords are the Seven Creative Spirits. in the purely spiritual. who correspond to the Hebrew Elohim.
STANZA I.had returned to its one primordial element -. and a manifestation of them in his periodical appearances on Earth during the "wheels. Brahma is Father-Mother-Son." or the Manvantaras.")
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which is absolute darkness to the scientific mind. Only while St. so far. the Unknown Deity. or Spirit and Substance. the Dhyanis watch successively over one of the Rounds and the great Root-races of our planetary chain. in the Christian theogony. WAS IMMERSED IN PARANISHPANNA (b) (absolute perfection. and will receive more ample treatment later on. NAUGHT WAS (c). Vol 1.
http://www.05. to differentiate again and crystallize out anew at the following Manvantaric dawn. AND THE UNIVERSE. each personage being symbolical of an attribute. in the Esoteric System. the planetary chain and the earth. -. This is a very complicated question. moreover. Soul and Body at once. said to send their Bhodisatvas. it is the Universe.

and Four Vedas" -.htm (7 von 15) [06. whose dogmas have been
http://www. is one of the three aspects of the Absolute -. Voidness. and the Future -. though it has not come into existence. For a similar reason Irenaeus insisted on the necessity of Four Gospels. it is called the Divine Breath.The Secret Doctrine by H. the Past. only in a relative
[[Vol. P. Page]] 43 MOTIONS." who then sleeps "wrapped in her invisible robes. and which. the following the Sixth. worlds as well as atoms. bk 1. The three periods -. which we can only speak of as absolute existence. still is". stanza 1
So far "There are only Four Truths." because links in the great Cosmic chain of Universes. according to a precept in the Prasanga Madhyamika teaching.the Present.say the Hindus and Buddhists. as it were. Blavatsky. as also the Future.the One Existence -. and in which they rest during the succeeding period of repose. The Secret Doctrine teaches the progressive development of everything. and being a cause as regards its successor. 1. each one standing in the relation of an effect as regards its predecessor. which becomes the Kosmos."
sense. and so on. and this stupendous development has neither conceivable beginning nor imaginable end. THE "GREAT BREATH. Everything has to be viewed as ideal. which. being Motion.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. and acquire a knowledge of how Non Ego. by him who would comprehend that state. with the exception of Paranirvana. however.05.theosociety.just as a perfect flower must cease to be a perfect flower and die. As said in the Scriptures: "The Past time is the Present time. and Darkness are Three in One and alone Selfexistent and perfect. Our "Universe" is only one of an infinite number of Universes.Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. hence so many contradictory interpretations of it. -. Vol 1. But as every new Root-race at the head of a Round must have its revelation and revealers. all of them "Sons of Necessity.are in the esoteric philosophy a compound time. for it must give room to still further absolute perfection.which breathes out a thought. and is regarded as the breathing of the Unknowable Deity -. The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath. (b) "Paranishpanna" is the absolute perfection to which all existences attain at the close of a great period of activity. (See "Isis Unveiled. It is only a true Idealist who can understand it. or Maha-Manvantara.") So also is it when the Divine Breath is inspired again the Universe disappears into the bosom of "the Great Mother. according to a higher standard of excellence in the following period of activity -. It is absolute. for the three are a composite number only in relation to the phenomenal plane. When the "Great Breath" is projected. but cannot picture to our imagination as any form of existence that we can distinguish from Non-existence.2003 03:30:38]
. but since then it has become entirely esoteric. In Tibetan it is called Yong-Grub. in order to grow into a perfect fruit. but in the realm of noumena have no abstract validity. Up to the day of the Yogacharya school the true nature of Paranirvana was taught publicly.if a somewhat Irish mode of expression may be permitted." (c) By "that which is and yet is not" is meant the Great Breath itself. the next Round will bring the Fifth." which is eternal.

05. THE VISIBLE THAT WAS." There is a difference in the interpretation of the meaning of "Paramartha" between the Yogacharyas and the Madhyamikas.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. Vol 1.
sensations according to the laws of Association.htm (8 von 15) [06. RESTED IN ETERNAL NON-BEING. Blavatsky. 327 and 357. on duration and time are all derived from our
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* See Dzungarian "Mani Kumbum." One has to acquire Paramartha lest one should become too easy a prey to Samvriti -. neither of whom. Present.* ------STANZA I. Inextricably bound up with the relativity of human knowledge. and Future -. have been worshipped as God and gods by the common herd of every age.theosociety. AND THE INVISIBLE THAT IS.2003 03:30:38]
. but the metaphysical causes.Continued. from an atom to a sun. in short.Past.
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* In clearer words: "One has to acquire true Self-Consciousness in order to understand Samvriti. but the panoramic succession of our states of consciousness? In the words of a Master. explain
http://www. and perish when its evolutionary march dispels the Maya of phenomenal existence. What is Time.is a philosophical axiom. Page]] 44 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. and they underlie the secondary and subordinate powers of Nature. (a) "The Causes of Existence" mean not only the physical causes known to science. for instance. "I feel irritated at having to use these three clumsy words -. and of all existence. 1. etc. This desire for a sentient life shows itself in everything. bk 1. and is a reflection of the Divine Thought propelled into objective existence. These abstractions must of necessity be postulated as the cause of the material Universe which presents itself to the senses and intellect. the real cause of that supposed desire." pp." Also consult Wassilief's "Der Buddhismus. into a law that the Universe should exist.'" Paramartha is the synonym of the Sanskrit term Svasam-vedana. the chief of which is the desire to exist. stanza 1
known ever since it broke away from the purely esoteric schools.miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole. and its first emanations are the most complete abstractions mind can conceive. which.The Secret Doctrine by H.* Our ideas." the "Book of the 10. It is impossible to conceive anything without a cause. or the 'origin of delusion. anthropomorphized. -. P. they are about as ill-adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carving. According to esoteric teaching. however. 7.000 Precepts. THE ONE BEING (b). remains for ever hidden. or "the reflection which analyses itself.
[[Vol. the attempt to do so makes the mind a blank. they nevertheless can have no existence except in the experience of the individual ego. an outcome of Nidana and Maya. THE CAUSES OF EXISTENCE HAD BEEN DONE AWAY WITH (a).

The Secret Doctrine by H. Page]] 46 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. to the intrauterine life which alone it knows. AND LIFE PULSATED UNCONSCIOUS IN UNIVERSAL SPACE. -. INFINITE. (b) The idea of Eternal Non-Being. yet he knows that they are not only present there but that they alone give his quartz any appreciable value. but which we have not the senses or the intellect to cognize at present.
This is virtually the condition to which the mind must come at last when we try to trace back the chain of causes and effects.**
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. But the miner knows what the gold will look like when extracted from the quartz. and the water frozen into ice.
STANZA I.htm (9 von 15) [06. CAUSELESS. 1. but they are secret. ALONE. IN DREAMLESS SLEEP (a). will appear a paradox to anyone who does not remember that we limit our ideas of being to our present consciousness of existence. It is here that the teachings of esoteric philosophy in relation to the Nidanas and the Four Truths become of the greatest importance. THE ONE FORM OF EXISTENCE STRETCHED BOUNDLESS. and this relation of the gold to the quartz may faintly shadow forth that of the noumenon to the phenomenon. 1. rich with the lore acquired by numberless generations of his predecessors. until finally they phenomenalise in the form of the material Universe. See further. and of faculties to comprehend such data.Continued. in the absence of data to go upon. but both science and religion jump to this condition of blankness much more quickly than is necessary.theosociety. making it a specific.05. probably express that life as "Non-Being which is Real Being. bk 1." In our case the One Being is the noumenon of all the noumena which we know must underlie phenomena. would necessarily limit its conception of being. 9. Alone the Initiate. by a process of conversion of metaphysics into physics. analogous to that by which steam can be condensed into water. P. for they ignore the metaphysical abstractions which are the only conceivable cause of physical concretions. Vol 1.
[[Vol. in a similar manner. An unborn infant. The impalpable atoms of gold scattered through the substance of a ton of auriferous quartz may be imperceptible to the naked eye of the miner. instead of a generic term. 8. stanza 1
the real and true esoteric sense of the expression. Page]] 45 BEING AND NON-BEING. Blavatsky. sloka No. directs the "Eye of Dangma" toward the essence of things in which no Maya can have any influence. and were it to endeavour to express to its consciousness the idea of life after birth (death to it). which is the One Being.
[[Vol. THROUGHOUT THAT ALL-PRESENCE WHICH IS SENSED BY THE "OPENED EYE"* OF THE DANGMA (b). whereas the common mortal can form no conception of the reality of things separated from the Maya which veils them. and give them whatever shadow of reality they possess. could it think in our acceptation of that term. it would.

the individual is conscious in a different plane of his being. the Upanishads are made to rest. Blavatsky.heterogeneity developed from homogeneity..* The above. i. Biologists are now searching for their homogeneous protoplasm and chemists for their protyle. ** Dangma means a purified soul." which mythological tradition ascribes to certain races of men. 1. Vol 1. Page]] 47 THE EYE OF DANGMA." but beyond the great range it is known as "Dangma's opened eye" in esoteric phraseology. and on which. magnetism. the power of seeing at a distance. and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood. the self-existent plastic Essence and the root of all things." says a commentator."
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* In India it is called "The Eye of Siva. or as a Vedantin would express it. But perhaps the phrase." in this case is applied allegorically to the Universe to express a condition somewhat analogous to that state of consciousness in man." is not altogether correct. the Buddha) that was "evoked" and entirely upreared on the tenets of the Secret Doctrine. heat. It is. (b) Dreamless sleep is one of the seven states of consciousness known in Oriental esotericism. The term "dreamless sleep. bk 1. just as the sleep of the mesmerised subject seems to him an unconscious blank when he returns to his normal condition. it is on the contrary Buddhism (of Gautama.theosociety.05. whence emerges the origination.htm (10 von 15) [06.e. Fuller explanations will be found in Book II.** is undeniable.2003 03:30:38]
. of which a partial sketch is here attempted. P. In each of these states a different portion of the mind comes into action. stanza 1
(a) The tendency of modern thought is to recur to the archaic idea of a homogeneous basis for apparently widely different things -." The Puranic Commentators explain it by Karana -"Cause" -. which. The Sanskrit word is Prabhavapyaya. and so forth. It is not the "Mother of the World.
whereas.but the Esoteric philosophy. seems a blank. or rather a Mahatma so-called. and into which is the resolution of all things. by the ideal spirit of that cause. His "opened eye" is the inner spiritual eye of the seer. the "One Form of Existence.. not being remembered in a waking state. omnipresent yet abstract. having been "evoked by the teachings of the Buddhists. although he has been talking and acting as a conscious individual would. viewed in the same dual light as the Vedantin views his Parabrahm and Mulaprakriti. through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. It seems indeed extraordinary to find great scholars speculating on the possibility of the Vedanta.The Secret Doctrine by H. one who has become a Jivanmukta. while science is looking for the force of which electricity. but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition. "the place.
[[Vol. are the differentiations.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. The Secret Doctrine carries this idea into the region of metaphysics and postulates a "One Form of Existence" as the basis and source of all things. for Jagad Yoni (as shown by FitzEdward Hall) is scarcely so much "the Mother of the World" or "the Womb of the World" as the "Material Cause of the Universe. the eternal cause and effect.
http://www. the highest adept." as translated by Wilson (see Book I. the Svabhavat of the Buddhist philosopher. This faculty is intimately connected with the "third eye. in its secondary stage. or rather plane. and the Uttara-Mimansa especially. according to the teachings of Sri Sankaracharya. Vishnu Purana). also. the one under two aspects.

other schools dispute the statement. again: " . . has just denied this fact. "the highest authority" in such matters. one. Thus."
[[Vol. it reflects itself in every object of the Universe "like the moon in clear tranquil water". Alaya. Page]] 48 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." And then. though it is eternal and immutable in its essence.theosociety.05.htm (11 von 15) [06. though eternal and changeless in its inner essence on the planes which are unreachable by either men or Cosmic Gods (Dhyani Buddhas). -. ours included. being either taken from Buddhism or due to Greek teaching! (See Weber. the Bumapa school). alters during the active life-period with respect to the lower planes. no esoteric system of doctrine . and according to esoteric teaching it changes periodically its nature. namely. Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford.2003 03:30:38]
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(a) Here we have before us the subject of centuries of scholastic disputations. . stanza 1
------STANZA I. . the "Over-Soul" of Emerson. Anima Mundi) WAS IN PARAMARTHA (a) (Absolute Being and Consciousness which are Absolute Non-Being and Unconsciousness) AND THE GREAT WHEEL WAS ANUPADAKA (b)?
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* And yet. withheld from ordinary men" (!!) And. had long ago settled the question by showing. bk 1. Max Muller. and yet Alaya (Nyingpo and Tsang in Tibetan) is the basis of every visible and invisible thing.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. not the learners. 9.) We labour under the impression that Colebrooke. etc. The two terms "Alaya" and "Paramartha" have been the causes of dividing schools and splitting the truth into more different aspects than any other mystic terms. Vol 1. BUT WHERE WAS THE DANGMA WHEN THE ALAYA OF THE UNIVERSE (Soul as the basis of all. contradicting himself. P. 1. the learned lecturer forthwith informs his audience that "We learn from Lalita-Vistara that various forms of bodily torture. the later and lower form of Yoga seems to have been little known. This is not Nirvana. Alaya is literally the "Soul of the World" or Anima Mundi. and that. . The same for Paramartha: the Yogacharyas interpret the term as that which is also
http://www.Continued. to attain sublime heights of knowledge. Blavatsky. 1888. . It had no occult.The Secret Doctrine by H. This is what he taught his audience. self-maceration. on June the 4th. claiming authority. . but even the man strong in the Yoga (mystic meditation) "is able to merge his soul with it" (Aryasanga. Sir Monier Williams. that "the Hindus were in this instance the teachers. but a condition next to it. while the Yogacharyas (of the Mahayana school) say that Alaya is the personification of the Voidness. Buddhism set its face against all solitary asceticism . Hence the disagreement. ** It is even argued that all the Six Darsanas (Schools of philosophy) show traces of Buddha's influence. When Gautama Buddha began his career. which was "little known" and yet so "common" in Gautama's time. Hatha Yoga." (!!) But the lecturer seems quite unaware that this kind of torture and self-maceration is precisely the lower form of Yoga. and austerity were common in Gautama's time. in his annual address before the Victoria Institute of Great Britain: "Originally. During that time not only the Dhyani-Buddhas are one with Alaya in Soul and Essence.

bk 1. but because they believe that some structure. bearing the same relation functionally to plant life that nerves bear to animal life. Parikalpita (in Tibetan Kunttag) is error. whatever it is. and which has to disappear as soon as the cause from which it proceeds is removed -. Botanists are now searching for the nerves of plants. and the latter teach the existence of Paramarthasatya. made by those unable to realize the emptiness and illusionary nature of all. whether they be atoms or planets. P. who believe something to exist which does not -. Blavatsky. would have been scouted half a century ago. not that they suppose that plants can feel or think as animals do.e. It hardly seems possible that science can disguise from itself much longer. or. Soul and Matter." manifesting in what is called matter.theosociety. we name Spirit. "He who is strong in the Yoga can
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. is necessary to explain vegetable growth and nutrition. Maya. In the Yogacharya system of the contemplative Mahayana school. In Tibetan Paramarthasatya is Dondampaidenpa.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. or the "self-analysing reflection" -from two words. 1.g. and light disappears. the Non-Ego.htm (12 von 15) [06. Science. Vol 1. the light of a wick. and these three are a trinity synthesized by Life. Svasamvedana.
Paratantra is that. as a consequence of its liberation from anthropomorphic theology. by the mere use of terms such as "force" and "energy. contents itself with tracing or postulating the signs of universal life. Life we look upon as "the one form of existence. incorrectly separating them." now familiar to science."Samvriti" meaning "false conception" and being the origin of illusion. which pervades them all. THE UNIVERSAL SOUL. the "absolute truth. oh mendicants.The Secret Doctrine by H. or Esse." the fact that things that have life are living things."* "No Arhat.. i. in the exposition of these "two truths" (out of four). is Samvritisatya -. And
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*"Paramartha" is self-consciousness in Sanskrit. Destroy or extinguish it. at any rate) there exists only Samvritisatya or relative truth. the former believe and maintain that (on this plane. what.e. The idea of universal life is one of those ancient conceptions which are returning to the human mind in this century. and has not yet been bold enough even to whisper "Anima Mundi!" The idea of "crystalline life. parama (above everything) and artha (comprehension). Esoteric philosophy teaches that everything lives and is conscious.. and the Madhyamikas say that Paramartha is limited to Paranishpanna or absolute perfection. but not that all life and consciousness are similar to those of human or even animal beings. as in man. Matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence. and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit."
[[Vol. can reach absolute knowledge before he becomes one with Paranirvana. in Tibetan Kundzabchi-denpa. Parikalpita and Paratantra are his two great enemies" (Aphorisms of the Bodhisattvas). What are the doctrines taught on this subject by the Esoteric "Buddhists"? With them "Alaya" has a double and even a triple meaning. Satya meaning absolute true being.g.05. which exists only through a dependent or causal connexion. Page]] 49 ALAYA. But what is the belief of the inner esoteric Schools? the reader may ask.e. The opposite of this absolute reality. it is true. "illusion-creating appearance. stanza 1
dependent upon other things (paratantra).the relative truth only -.

for Prakriti is not the "uncognizable Brahma. stanza 1
introduce at will his Alaya by means of meditation into the true Nature of Existence.
is explained in Vishnu Purana as: "that which is the unevolved cause.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. original base. * "The indiscreet cause which is uniform. Only the Aryan philosophers never endowed the principle. P. who lived during the first centuries of our era and the Hungarian scholar most probably confuses the two. or during his age."* It is a mistake of those who know nothing of the Universality of the Occult doctrines from the very cradle of the human races. Vol 1. while it is. but only exhibits various aspects of itself. and have mirrored only an aspect of the basic idea of the Vedanta. the principle that according to his views is absolutely separated and free from matter and acts on design.* In one sense it is Pradhana.
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] A. an aspect of Pradhana. is emphatically called by the most eminent sages Pradhana.. ages before the year 500 B. i.** was called Motion.e. that which is eternal. perhaps. is the incognizable Brahma who was before all" (Vayu Purana). as also was Plato." to teach that the Anima Mundi. similarly falls far short of the reality.2003 03:30:38]
. Anaxagoras of Clazomene was not its inventor but only its propagator. Brahma does not put forth evolution itself or create. 1. The schools of Schelling and Fichte have diverged widely from the primitive archaic conception of an ABSOLUTE principle. which
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http://www. in India." says Aryasanga -. is an incorrect word. bk 1. the closest approximation made by European speculation to the Hindu Adwaitee Doctrines.the rival of Nagarjuna." however. and which those who are acquainted with first principles call Pradhana and Prakriti. with the finite "attribute" of "thinking." This leads the reader naturally to the "Supreme Spirit" of Hegel and the German Transcendentalists as a contrast that it may be useful to point out. There was another Aryasanga. though Csoma di Koros places him.. the One Life or "Universal Soul.C. for some reasons of his own.The Secret Doctrine by H. Even the "Absoluter Geist" shadowed forth by von Hartman in his pessimistic philosophy of the Unconscious. the nous ([[nous]]). and especially so of those scholars who reject the very idea of a "primordial revelation. the ONE LIFE. one of which is Prakriti. Blavatsky." "Prakriti. in the seventh century [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. This philosopher brought the teaching forward simply to oppose the too materialistic conceptions on Cosmogony of Democritus.

how can it be said that the "Unconscious" and the Absolute can have even an instinctive impulse or hope of attaining clear self-consciousness?* A Vedantin would never admit this Hegelian idea. The whole series of the numberless speculations of this kind are but variations on this theme.htm (14 von 15) [06. The matter-moving Nous. Vol 1. bk 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. which the European Pantheists use as equivalent to Parabrahm. manifested in man.the connotation it usually bears. As the highest Dhyan Chohan. Page]] 52 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[Vol. . the Universal Mind already projected into the phenomenal world as the first aspect of the changeless ABSOLUTE. "behind" phenomena. is powerless from the very constitution of his being to raise the veil that shrouds the majesty of the Absolute. and the Occultist would say that it applies perfectly to the awakened MAHAT. or Purusha and Prakriti are but the two primeval aspects of the One and Secondless. ." we are taught. can but bow in ignorance before the awful mystery of Absolute Being.localised. the highest of which known to us is human consciousness?
[[Vol. but never to the latter. In this connection it is to be borne in mind that in designating Spirit. the "Unconscious" would never have undertaken the vast and laborious task of evolving the Universe.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. which is only termed unconsciousness in the absence of any element of personality." they tell us. even in that culmination of conscious existence -.one employed in the absence of a better to symbolise a profound mystery -. except in the hope of attaining clear Self-consciousness. latent in the stone. nor can it apply to it its own standard of mental experiences. Man. Only the liberated Spirit is able to faintly realise the nature of the source whence it sprung and whither it must eventually return. 1. For how can the absolute attain it otherwise than as simply an aspect. they do not attach to that expression of "Spirit" -. P. for it is again the same Archaeus or "Father-Ether. has different degrees of power. The "Absolute Consciousness. unable to form one concept except in terms of empirical phenomena. immanent in every atom. "Spirit and Matter. transcends human conception. Blavatsky.2003 03:30:38]
."the merging of the individual in the universal consciousness" -.05. 28. the key-note of which was struck in this
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According to Hegel.to use a phrase of Fichte's -. I mean.
and source of the innumerable phenomena of life -. 1. and since.the Finite cannot conceive the Infinite. stanza 1
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** the Svabhavat in the highest aspect.Philosophy of History. and that they have become the "diamond-souled" (Vajra-sattvas). is half esoteric. the Dhyan-Chohans or Dhyani-Buddhas.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-02. . or absolute condition.. . bk 1. who with Schelling practically accepted the Pantheistic conception of periodical Avatars (special incarnations of the World-Spirit in Man. only by stripping himself of his finiteness and surrendering himself to pure self-consciousness does he attain the truth. stanza 1
primeval Revelation. ** To quote Hegel again. Sibree's English translation. and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu).or Atma-Buddhi. .The Secret Doctrine by H. The explanation with regard to the "Anupadaka" given in the Kala Chakra.* the full Mahatmas. as seen in the case of all the great religious reformers) . Christ-man. .05. 340. Hence. in order to exist as Spirit. known as the "Manushi (or human) Buddhas.theosociety.. "the one merged with the absolute. "the essence of man is spirit . before it was fashioned by the "Builders" -. its adamantine quality referring to its indestructibility in the hereafter. in his death and history generally. "Primordial Substance. (See Part II. when speaking of the Universe in its formless. and will be more fully explained in its proper place. and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state.a history which every man has to accomplish in himself. and the lower rung the Manushi-Buddha. The "Concealed Lord" (Sangbai Dag-po).") (b) The term Anupadaka. The real tenet is hinted at in a subsequent Volume. But as these correspond mystically to the human Buddhas and Bodhisattwas.2003 03:30:38]
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RESTED IN THE BLISS OF NON-BEING (b). WHERE WERE THE BUILDERS. Vol 1. as will be shown elsewhere. (a) The "Builders. Page]] 53 THE STATE OF PARANIRVANA. P. the Absolute. which exoterically are the Seven planets. But there is a great difference between conscious and unconscious "being. in abscondito. or Cosmic Space. and esoterically the seven earths or spheres (planets) of our chain also." are the real creators of the Universe.theosociety. hence the same as Paranirvana. sec 2b
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"Mother of the Gods." as well as to the Solar pralaya and subsequent resurrection of our Planetary System on a higher plane. . In the Zohar. COMMENTARY. are also called the "Watchers" of the Seven Spheres.htm (1 von 8) [06. as the architects of the latter. which deals only with our Planetary System. is the summum bonum. Page]] 54 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." the "Sons of Manvantaric Dawn. .Vol.THE DEVAMATRI* AND SVABHAVAT. is absolute Being. Besides being the final state it is that condition of subjectivity which has no relation to anything but the one absolute truth (Para-marthasatya) on its plane. . as explained. she is called Sephira the Mother of the Sephiroth. Blavatsky -. they. It is that state which leads one to appreciate correctly the full meaning of Non-Being.. The opening sentence of Stanza I. without Paramartha. 1
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iron ball placed under the scorching rays of the sun will get heated through. while a man will. is the important thing. Under this apparent contradiction in terms. otherwise. and an assimilation of the merit of manifold existences devoted to being in its collectivity (the whole living and sentient Universe). The One Eternal Element. or element-containing Vehicle. it is replaced by its equivalent in the material plane -Motion. The question whether Hydrogen and Oxygen cease to exist. Maya. -. Vol 1. A familiar instance of a similar paradox is afforded by chemical combination. dimensionless in every
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-03.* and continuing in full possession of Paramartha. The One secondless Existence is ADWAITA.
condition of the Universe when it goes to sleep." that one gets rid of personal existence. some arguing that since they are found again when the water is decomposed they must be there all the while. becoming one with.htm (2 von 8) [06. is still a moot one. during the "Nights of Brahma" -. . NOR SOUND (a). since all the gods." in esoteric philosophy. which has become something else and yet has not ceased to be itself. . but will not feel or appreciate the warmth. when the dawn of the new Manvantara recalls it to what we call existence. WHERE WAS SILENCE? WHERE WERE THE EARS TO SENSE IT? NO! THERE WAS NEITHER SILENCE. but neither side is able to form the faintest conception of the real condition of a thing.Continued. In the tenets of the latter even Adi-Budha (first or primeval wisdom) is. 2. for Oxygen and Hydrogen. have to die at the end of the "Age of Brahma". rather than to argue about words.The Secret Doctrine by H. in one sense an illusion. teaches the Adwaita philosophy. (b) The "Breath" of the One Existence is used in its application only to the spiritual aspect of Cosmogony by Archaic esotericism." and all the rest is Maya. the abstraction called Parabrahm alone -. (a) The idea that things can cease to exist and still BE. NAUGHT SAVE CEASELESS. Blavatsky. or ceases to be. when they combine to form water. Existence as water may be said to be. the Absolute. a state of Non-being which is "more real being" than their existence as gases. others contending that as they actually turn into something totally different they must cease to exist as themselves for the time being. . It is only "with a mind clear and undarkened by personality. or Herbert Spencer's Unknowable -. while manifested.

nimitta is the efficient cause. any more than the quality wet can be predicated of water -.absolute "perpetual motion" which is the "breath" of the "One" Element." If. which is Brahma. can conceive. "And from him proceed the potencies to be created. Page]] 56 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. the material cause. Consciousness implies limitations and qualifications. after lifting the Earth out of the waters.. the ideal Cause. as clearly implied." in Part II. and someone to be conscious of it." Infinity cannot comprehend Finiteness. bk 1. (and in the Sankhya. in the Esoteric philosophy. and not.every created thing comes by its inherent or proper nature.htm (3 von 8) [06. as seen. the Unknown and the Unknowable MOVER. Brahma (or Hari) the four-faced god who. not even during the Pralayic eternities.to the limited senses of those who describe this indescribable -.) But the "Breath of the One Existence" does not." When a translator says. all three in itself and all three one. co-existent with which are -." Therein Brahma is the cause of the potencies that are to be generated subsequently for the work of "creation. apply to the One Causeless Cause or the "All Be-ness" (in contradistinction to All-Being. Concrete consciousness cannot be predicated of abstract Consciousness. to be cognized.2003 03:30:40]
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[[Vol. in the Vedanta and Nyaya. that which is in the minds of the Vaishnavas (the Vasishta-dvaita) as the ideal in contradistinction to the real -. after they had become the real cause": "and from IT proceed the potencies that will create as they become the real cause" (on the material plane) would perhaps be more correct? Save that one (causeless) ideal cause there is no other to which the universe can be referred. The Boundless can have no relation to the bounded and the conditioned.e. How much greater must be the difficulty of finding terms to describe. all the same.The Secret Doctrine by H.can find no room in published speculations. even that of an adept. through the potency of that cause -. No man is conscious of more than that portion of his knowledge that happens to have been recalled to his mind at any particular time. But Absolute Consciousness contains the cognizer. from knowledge we are unable to recall to memory. and the nearest exponent of which is the Vedanta as expounded by the Advaita Vedantists.endless duration. or the SelfExisting. the thing cognized and the cognition. To know itself or oneself. pradhana implies the functions of both). and motion -. yet such is the poverty of language that we have no term to distinguish the knowledge not actively thought of. sec 2b
sense. when applied to that of which no human reason. so far. seems to have thoroughly comprehended the real sense of the verses in the Purana. as contrasted with upadana.theosociety. and to
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We involuntarily distinguish in our minds. abstract metaphysical facts or differences. and flashes into the "Germ" -.
[[Vol. We call absolute consciousness "unconsciousness. yet still very graphic. the water-lily of India. -. for the passive female principle from which everything in this Universe emanated. represented by matter in its abstract sense.even before they germinate -. male.* (a) The ray of the "Ever Darkness" becomes. and Fire is the Father.the point in the Mundane Egg. Ether or Water is the Mother. fire standing in every philosophical and religious system as a representation of the Spirit of Deity.The Secret Doctrine by H. "The Lotus Flower as an Universal Symbol.the form being usually sacrificed to the inner or root idea in Archaic symbology. It must not be forgotten. as no atom can be made visible to our physical eye. 1.theosociety. Jones (and before him archaic botany) showed that the seeds of the Lotus contain -. on a higher plane than our thoughts can reach. a very ancient and favourite
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distinguish between.*** (See Part II." because it seems to us that it must necessarily be so. they will become: nature thus giving us a specimen of the preformation of its production . But this is not any kind of consciousness that we can manage to distinguish from what appears to us as unconsciousness. Hence. THE RAY HAD NOT YET FLASHED INTO THE GERM (a).05. or the Soul of matter. is. Sir W. the miniature shape of what one day.htm (4 von 8) [06. the seed of all phanerogamous plants bearing proper flowers containing an embryo plantlet ready formed. P. (b) One of the symbolical figures for the Dual creative power in Nature (matter and force on the material plane) is Padma. the light of the fire. Blavatsky. or Padma. and these collectively form "the Germ.
STANZA II. Vol 1. "Darkness. between unconscious absolute consciousness. generative principle. with what we know as consciousness in ourselves.** the active. that we give names to things according to the appearances they assume for ourselves. by secretly endowing the former with some indefinite quality that corresponds." or rather. also. (See foot-note to Stanza III. the collectivity of these (if the term can be applied to something which is boundless and infinite) forms the noumenon of eternal and indestructible matter.") This explains the sentence "The Mother had not yet swollen" -. moreover. as it is emitted. Page]] 57 THE GERM OF LIFE.. and Ether. THE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK. But the term "Point" must not be understood as applying to any particular point in Space. a ray of effulgent light or life.)
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would be broken entirely in our conception. and the THREE (Father. Blavatsky. the fact just mentioned. or the male aspect of the Anima Mundi. Say the Kabalists: "The Deity is one.) invisible Protyle of Science. or imagine the root concealed under the soil. And the deity being absolute. yet they are one tree. HER HEART HAD NOT YET OPENED FOR THE ONE RAY TO ENTER. Mother. and also for man. "If thou wouldest believe in the Power which acts within the root of a plant. P.") *** Gross. Vol 1. because it is ever manifesting. "The Heathen Religion.

according to the Seers. in other words.the LIFE which radiates from the summits of the Unreachable. present. personified by the "Mother". or." descending on Adam Kadmon whom he uses as his vehicle to manifest
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Measure. Vau. Matter in its infinitude) is born again on Earth as the Son of the terrestrial Eve -. as form and colour are the qualities of any object. below.) is born through. Parabrahmam is inseparable from his trinity. and so would the Adwaitee Vedantin. as a UNITY. etc. or both male and female.05. the Son is the whole KOSMOS. or.htm (6 von 8) [06.* Privation meant in the mind of the great philosopher that which the Occultists call the prototypes impressed in the Astral Light -. But an Occultist would find much to say against this claim.. Above. so to speak. as a living manifestation) has been the means of leading to the very archaic Idea of Immaculate Conception. or Jehovah. Mother. Parabrahmam is the SUBSTANCE -. The Macroprosopus (the Great Face) is now Microprosopus (the lesser face).2003 03:30:40]
.: 113 x 5 = 565. the "Ancient of Days.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-03. That He is three. and a 6-faced cube on Earth." Thus is repeated on Earth the mystery enacted. and not even a Being but Be-ness. etc. and pre-eminently metaphysical: the Male element in Nature (personified by the male deities and Logoi -. The union of these three principles depends upon a fourth -. The triad or triangle becomes Tetraktis. and Achit (Anatma) are its qualities. to become an universally diffused Essence on the manifested planes of Existence. and this is obtained in this way. an immaculate conception. Page 60]] THE SECRET DOCTRINE. For one has but to read the Kabala and study its numerical methods of interpretation to find the origin of that dogma. . on the divine plane. 1." the last two being dependent realities unable to exist separately. He. The "Son" of the immaculate Celestial Virgin (or the undifferentiated cosmic protyle. or Brahma. The expansion of 565 into 56. Let us render this in the mathematical language of the author of "The Source of Measures. the Sacred Pythagorean number.
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principles for every natural body to become objective: privation.the lowest plane and world of Anima Mundi. because that Male having a Mother cannot have a "Father" -.our mother Earth. and Achit. viz.

present. it is said that the original word of Yeu is "Being" or "Subhava. is conceivable to the perceptions of blind faith. occupies itself chiefly. the latter being the informing principle of the former. This teaching will be explained more fully hereafter. ------STANZA II. is composed of two words: Su "fair. The Universe.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-03. not only past. in the Stanzas given here.ONE. It is the body of the Soul. Brahma." In the Ekasloka-Shastra of Nagarjuna (the Lung-shu of China) called by the Chinese the Yih-shu-lu-kia-lun. is that Thought itself reflected in a secondary or manifest cause. The "Seven Sons.Continued. and future -. unless Knowledge through Paramarthasatya comes to the rescue." the Great Illusion. is the root of all things. with our Solar System. 1. the great Deceiver of man's limited senses.theosociety. the Buddhistic concrete aspect of the abstraction called in Hindu philosophy Mulaprakriti.. AND THE GERM IS -. if not entirely. Svabhavat is. THESE TWO ARE THE GERM. the malefemale. "being" or "states of being.Continued. (a) The Secret Doctrine." also explained by him as meaning " without action and with action." therefore. Sva. THE UNIVERSE WAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE DIVINE THOUGHT AND THE DIVINE BOSOM. Chinese mystics have made of it the synonym of "being. P. and between itself and the Reality has the Astral Light. AND SVABHAVAT WAS IN DARKNESS (a). from which Svabhavat. gets transformed into Tetragrammaton. the absolute being. "Primordial Substance
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The Secret Doctrine by H. the "last vibration of the Seventh Eternity" was "fore-ordained" -. "The ever (to us) invisible and immaterial Substance present in eternity. THE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE (a). the Illusion. the first-born of Gnana (or gnosis) knowledge.
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plant exists not only as a miniature embryo in its seed (a physical characteristic), but its prototype is present in an ideal form in the Astral Light from "Dawn" to "Night" during the Manvantaric period, like everything else, as a matter of fact, in this objective Universe; from man down to mite, from giant trees down to the tiniest blades of grass. All this, teaches the hidden Science, is but the temporary reflection, the shadow of the eternal ideal prototype in Divine Thought -- the word "Eternal," note well again, standing here only in the sense of "AEon," as lasting throughout the seemingly interminable, but still limited cycle of activity, called by us Manvantara. For what is the real esoteric meaning of Manvantara, or rather a Manu-Antara? It means, esoterically, "between two Manus," of whom there are fourteen in every "Day of Brahma," such a "Day" consisting of 1,000 aggregates of four ages, or 1,000 "Great Ages," Mahayugas. Let us now analyse the word or name Manu. Orientalists and their Dictionaries tell us that the term "Manu" is from the root Man, "to think"; hence "the thinking man." But, esoterically, every Manu, as an anthropomorphized patron of his special cycle (or Round), is but the personified idea of the "Thought Divine" (as the Hermetic "Pymander"); each of the Manus, therefore, being the special god, the creator and fashioner of all that appears during his own respective cycle of being or Manvantara. Fohat runs the Manus' (or Dhyan-Chohans') errands, and causes the ideal prototypes to expand from within without -- viz., to cross gradually, on a descending scale, all the planes from the noumenon to the lowest phenomenon, to bloom finally on the last into full objectivity -- the acme of illusion, or the grossest matter. ------STANZA III. -- continued. 2. THE VIBRATION SWEEPS ALONG, TOUCHING WITH ITS SWIFT WING (simultaneously) THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, AND THE GERM THAT DWELLETH IN DARKNESS: THE DARKNESS THAT BREATHES (moves) OVER THE SLUMBERING WATERS OF LIFE (a).

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(a) The Pythagorean Monad is also said to dwell in solitude and darkness like the "germ." The idea of the "breath" of Darkness moving over "the slumbering Waters of life," which is primordial matter with the latent Spirit in it, recalls the first chapter of Genesis. Its original is the Brahminical Narayana (the mover on the Waters), who is the personification of the eternal Breath of the unconscious All (or Parabrahm) of the Eastern Occultists. The Waters of Life, or Chaos -- the female principle in symbolism -- are the vacuum (to our mental sight) in which lie the latent Spirit and Matter. This it was that made Democritus assert, after his instructor Leucippus, that the primordial principles of all were atoms and a vacuum, in the sense of space, but not of empty space, as "Nature abhors a vacuum" according to the Peripatetics, and every ancient philosopher. In all Cosmogonies "Water" plays the same important part. It is the base and source of material existence. Scientists, mistaking the word for the thing, understood by water the definite chemical combination of oxygen and hydrogen, thus giving a specific meaning to a term used by Occultists in a
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generic sense, and which is used in Cosmogony with a metaphysical and mystical meaning. Ice is not water, neither is steam, although all three have precisely the same chemical composition. ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 2.[[3.]] "DARKNESS" RADIATES LIGHT, AND LIGHT DROPS ONE SOLITARY RAY INTO THE WATERS, INTO THE MOTHER DEEP. THE RAY SHOOTS THROUGH THE VIRGIN-EGG; THE RAY CAUSES THE ETERNAL EGG TO THRILL, AND DROP THE NON-ETERNAL (periodical) GERM, WHICH CONDENSES INTO THE WORLD EGG (a). (a) The solitary ray dropping into the mother deep may be taken as meaning Divine Thought or Intelligence, impregnating chaos. This, however, occurs on the plane of metaphysical abstraction, or rather the plane whereon that which we call a metaphysical abstraction is a reality. The Virgin-egg being in one sense abstract Egg-ness, or the power of becoming developed through fecundation, is eternal and for ever the same. And just as the fecundation of an egg takes place before it is dropped; so the non-eternal periodical germ which becomes later in

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symbolism the mundane egg, contains in itself, when it emerges from the said symbol, "the promise and potency" of all the Universe. Though the idea per se is, of course, an abstraction, a symbolical mode of expression, it is a symbol truly, as it suggests the idea of infinity as an endless circle. It brings before the mind's eye the picture of Kosmos emerging from and in boundless space, a Universe as shoreless in magnitude if not as endless in its objective manifestation. The simile of an egg also expresses the fact taught in Occultism that the primordial form of everything manifested, from atom to globe, from man to angel, is spheroidal, the sphere having been with all nations the emblem of eternity and infinity -- a serpent swallowing its tail. To realize the meaning, however, the sphere must be thought of as seen from its centre. The field of vision or of thought is like a sphere whose radii proceed from one's self in every direction, and extend out into space, opening up boundless vistas all around. It is the symbolical circle of Pascal and the Kabalists, "whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere," a conception which enters into the compound idea of this emblem. The "Mundane Egg" is, perhaps, one of the most universally adopted symbols, highly suggestive as it is, equally in the spiritual, physiological, and cosmological sense. Therefore, it is found in every worldtheogony, where it is largely associated with the serpent symbol; the latter being everywhere, in philosophy as in religious symbolism, an emblem of eternity, infinitude, regeneration, and rejuvenation, as well as of wisdom. (See Part II. "Tree and Serpent and Crocodile Worship.") The mystery of apparent self-generation and evolution through its own creative power repeating in miniature the process of Cosmic evolution in the egg, both being due to heat and moisture under the efflux of the unseen creative spirit, justified fully the selection of this graphic symbol. The "Virgin Egg" is the microcosmic symbol of the macrocosmic prototype -- the "Virgin Mother" -- Chaos or the Primeval Deep. The male Creator (under whatever name) springs forth from the Virgin female, the
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immaculate root fructified by the Ray. Who, if versed in astronomy and natural sciences, can fail to see its suggestiveness? Cosmos as receptive Nature is an Egg fructified -- yet left immaculate; once regarded as boundless, it could have no other representation than a spheroid. The Golden Egg was surrounded by seven natural elements (ether, fire, air, water), "four ready, three secret." It may be found

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stated in Vishnu Purana, where elements are translated "Envelopes" and a secret one is added: "Ahamkara" (see Wilson's Vishnu Purana, Book I., p. 40). The original text has no "Aham-kara;" it mentions seven Elements without specifying the last three (see Part II. on "The Mundane Egg"). ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 4. (Then) THE THREE (triangle) FALL INTO THE FOUR (quaternary). THE RADIANT ESSENCE BECOMES SEVEN INSIDE, SEVEN OUTSIDE (a). THE LUMINOUS EGG (Hiranyagarbha), WHICH IN ITSELF IS THREE (the triple hypostases of Brahma, or Vishnu, the three "Avasthas"), CURDLES AND SPREADS IN MILK-WHITE CURDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPTHS OF MOTHER, THE ROOT THAT GROWS IN THE OCEAN OF LIFE (b). The use of geometrical figures and the frequent allusions to figures in all ancient scriptures (see Puranas, Egyptian papyri, the "Book of the Dead" and even the Bible) must be explained. In the "Book of Dzyan," as in the Kabala, there are two kinds of numerals to be studied -- the figures, often simple blinds, and the Sacred Numbers, the values of which are all known to the Occultists through Initiation. The former is but a conventional glyph, the latter is the basic symbol of all. That is to say, that one is purely physical, the other purely metaphysical, the two standing in relation to each other as matter stands to spirit -- the extreme poles of the ONE Substance. As Balzac, the unconscious Occultist of French literature, says somewhere, the Number is to Mind the same as it is to matter: "an incomprehensible agent;" (perhaps so to the profane, never to the Initiated mind). Number is, as the great writer thought, an Entity, and, at the same time, a Breath emanating from what he called God and what we call the ALL; the breath which alone could organize the physical Kosmos, "where naught obtains its form but through the Deity, which is an effect of Number." It is instructive to quote Balzac's words upon this subject: -"The smallest as the most immense creations, are they not to be distinguished from each other by their quantities, their qualities, their dimensions, their forces and attributes, all begotten by the NUMBER? The infinitude of the Numbers is a fact proven to our mind, but of which no proof can be physically

given. The mathematician will tell us that the infinitude of the numbers exists but is not to be demonstrated. God is a Number endowed with motion, which is felt but not demonstrated. As Unity, it begins the Numbers, with which it has nothing in common. . . . . The existence of the Number depends on Unity, which, without a single Number, begets them all. . . . . What! unable either to measure the first abstraction yielded to you by the Deity, or to get hold of it, you still hope to subject to your measurements the mystery of the Secret Sciences which emanate from that Deity? . . . . And what would you feel, were I to plunge you into the abysses of MOTION, the Force which organizes the Number? What would you think, were I to add that Motion and Number* are begotten by the WORD, the Supreme Reason of the Seers and Prophets, who, in days of old, sensed the mighty Breath of God, a witness to which is the Apocalypse?" (b) "The radiant essence curdled and spread throughout the depths" of Space. From an astronomical point of view this is easy of explanation: it is the "milky way," the world-stuff, or primordial matter in its first form. It is more difficult, however, to explain it in a few words or even lines, from the standpoint of Occult Science and Symbolism, as it is the most complicated of glyphs. Herein are enshrined more than a dozen symbols. To begin with, the whole pantheon of mysterious objects,** every one of them having some definite Occult meaning, extracted from the allegorical "churning of the ocean" by the Hindu gods. Besides Amrita, the water of life or immortality, "Surabhi" the "cow of plenty," called "the fountain of milk and curds," was extracted from this "Sea of Milk." Hence the universal adoration of the cow and bull, one the productive, the other the generative power in Nature: symbols connected with both the Solar and the Cosmic deities. The specific properties, for occult purposes, of the "fourteen precious things," being explained only at the fourth Initiation, cannot be given here; but the following may be remarked. In the "Satapatha Brahmana" it is stated that the churning of the "Ocean of Milk" took place in the Satya Yug, the first age which immediately followed the "Deluge." As, however, neither the Rig-Veda nor
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Manu -- both preceding Vaivasvata's "deluge," that of the bulk of the Fourth Race -- mention this deluge, it is evident that it is not the "great" deluge, nor that which carried away Atlantis, nor even the deluge of Noah, which is meant here. This "churning" relates to a period before the earth's formation, and is in direct connection with that other universal legend, the various and contradictory versions of which culminated in the Christian dogma of the "War in Heaven," and the fall of the Angels (see Book
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II., also Revelations chap. xii.). The Brahmanas, reproached by the Orientalists with their versions on the same subjects, often clashing with each other, are pre-eminently occult works, hence used purposely as blinds. They were allowed to survive for public use and property only because they were and are absolutely unintelligible to the masses. Otherwise they would have disappeared from circulation as long ago as the days of Akbar. ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 5. THE ROOT REMAINS, THE LIGHT REMAINS, THE CURDS REMAIN, AND STILL OEAOHOO (a) IS ONE (b). (a) OEAOHOO is rendered "Father-Mother of the Gods" in the Commentaries, or the SIX IN ONE, or the septenary root from which all proceeds. All depends upon the accent given to these seven vowels, which may be pronounced as one, three, or even seven syllables by adding an e after the letter "o." This mystic name is given out, because without a thorough mastery of the triple pronunciation it remains for ever ineffectual. (b) This refers to the Non-Separateness of all that lives and has its being, whether in active or passive state. In one sense, Oeaohoo is the "Rootless Root of All"; hence, one with Parabrahmam; in another sense it is a name for the manifested ONE LIFE, the Eternal living Unity. The "Root" means, as already explained, pure knowledge (Sattva),*
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eternal (Nitya) unconditioned reality or SAT (Satya), whether we call it Parabrahmam or Mulaprakriti, for these are the two aspects of the ONE. The "Light" is the same Omnipresent Spiritual Ray, which has entered and now fecundated the Divine Egg, and calls cosmic matter to begin its long series of differentiations. The curds are the first differentiation, and probably refer also to that cosmic matter which is supposed to be the origin of the "Milky Way" -- the matter we know. This "matter," which, according to the revelation received from the primeval Dhyani-Buddhas, is, during the periodical sleep of the Universe, of the ultimate tenuity conceivable to the eye of the perfect Bodhisatva -- this matter, radical and cool, becomes, at the first reawakening of cosmic motion, scattered through Space; appearing, when seen from the Earth, in clusters and lumps, like curds in thin milk. These are the seeds of the future worlds, the "Star-stuff."

------STANZA III. -- Continued. 6. THE ROOT OF LIFE WAS IN EVERY DROP OF THE OCEAN OF IMMORTALITY (Amrita)* AND THE OCEAN WAS RADIANT LIGHT, WHICH WAS FIRE AND HEAT AND MOTION. DARKNESS VANISHED AND WAS NO MORE.** IT DISAPPEARED IN ITS OWN ESSENCE, THE BODY OF FIRE AND WATER, OF FATHER AND MOTHER (a). (a) The essence of darkness being absolute light, Darkness is taken as the appropriate allegorical representation of the condition of the Universe during Pralaya, or the term of absolute rest, or nonbeing, as it appears to our finite minds. The "fire," "heat," and "motion" here spoken of, are, of course, not the fire, heat, and motion of physical science, but the underlying abstractions, the noumena, or the soul, of the essence of these material manifestations -- the "things in themselves," which, as modern science confesses, entirely elude the instru[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------

[[Footnote continued from previous page]] lated by Kashinath Trimbak Telang, M.A.; edited by Max Muller.) Whatever meaning various schools may give the term, Sattva is the name given among Occult students of the Aryasanga School to the dual Monad or Atma-buddhi, and Atma-buddhi on this plane corresponds to Parabrahm and Mulaprakriti on the higher plane. * Amrita is "immortality." ** See Commentary No. 1 to this Stanza.

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ments of the laboratory, and which even the mind cannot grasp, although it can equally little avoid the conclusion that these underlying essences of things must exist. Fire and Water, or Father* and Mother, may be taken here to mean the divine Ray and Chaos. "Chaos, from this union with Spirit obtaining sense, shone with pleasure, and thus was produced the Protogonos (the first-born light)," says a fragment of Hermas. Damascius calls it Dis in "Theogony" -- "The disposer of all things." (See Cory's "Ancient Fragments," p. 314.) According to the Rosicrucian tenets, as handled and explained by the profane for once correctly, if only partially, so "Light and Darkness are identical in themselves, being only divisible in the human mind"; and according to Robert Fludd, "Darkness adopted illumination in order to make itself visible" (On Rosenkranz). According to the tenets of Eastern Occultism, DARKNESS is the one true actuality, the basis and the root of light, without which the latter could never manifest itself, nor even exist. Light is matter, and DARKNESS pure Spirit. Darkness, in its radical, metaphysical basis, is subjective and absolute light; while the latter in all its seeming effulgence and glory, is merely a mass of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and is simply an illusion, or Maya.
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Even in the mind-baffling and science-harassing Genesis, light is created out of darkness "and darkness was upon the face of the deep" (ch. i. v. 2.) -- and not vice versa. "In him (in darkness) was life; and the life was the light of men" (John i. 4). A day may come when the eyes of men will be opened; and then they may comprehend better than they do now, that verse in the Gospel of John that says "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not." They will see then that the word "darkness" does not apply to man's spiritual eyesight, but indeed to "Darkness," the absolute, that comprehendeth not (cannot cognize) transient light, however transcendent to human eyes. Demon est Deus inversus. The devil is now called Darkness by the Church, whereas, in the Bible he is called the "Son of God" (see Job), the bright star of the early morning, Lucifer (see Isaiah). There is a whole philosophy of dogmatic craft in the reason why the first Archangel, who sprang from the depths of Chaos, was called Lux (Lucifer), the "Luminous Son of the Morning," or man[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------

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vantaric Dawn. He was transformed by the Church into Lucifer or Satan, because he is higher and older than Jehovah, and had to be sacrificed to the new dogma. (See Book II.)

--------STANZA III. -- Continued. 7. BEHOLD, OH LANOO!** THE RADIANT CHILD OF THE TWO, THE UNPARALLELED REFULGENT GLORY, BRIGHT SPACE, SON OF DARK SPACE, WHO EMERGES FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE GREAT DARK WATERS. IT IS OEAOHOO, THE YOUNGER, THE * * * (whom thou knowest now as Kwan-Shai-Yin. -- Comment) (a). HE SHINES FORTH AS THE SUN. HE IS THE BLAZING DIVINE DRAGON OF WISDOM. THE EKA IS CHATUR (four), AND CHATUR TAKES TO ITSELF THREE, AND THE UNION PRODUCES THE SAPTA (seven) IN WHOM ARE THE SEVEN WHICH BECOME THE TRIDASA*** (the thrice ten) THE HOSTS AND THE MULTITUDES (b). BEHOLD HIM LIFTING THE VEIL, AND UNFURLING IT FROM EAST TO WEST. HE SHUTS OUT THE ABOVE AND LEAVES THE BELOW TO BE SEEN AS THE GREAT ILLUSION. HE MARKS THE PLACES FOR THE SHINING ONES (stars) AND TURNS THE UPPER (space) INTO A SHORELESS SEA OF FIRE, AND THE ONE MANIFESTED (element) INTO THE GREAT WATERS (c). "Bright Space, son of dark Space," corresponds to the Ray dropped at the first thrill of the new "Dawn" into the great Cosmic depths, from which it re-emerges differentiated as Oeaohoo the younger, (the "new LIFE"), to become, to the end of the life-cycle, the germ of all things. He is "the Incorporeal man
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who contains in himself the divine Idea," -- the generator of Light and Life, to use an expression of Philo Judaeus. He is called the "Blazing Dragon of Wisdom,"
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because, firstly, he is that which the Greek philosophers called the Logos, the Verbum of the Thought Divine; and secondly, because in Esoteric philosophy this first manifestation, being the synthesis or the aggregate of Universal Wisdom, Oeaohoo, "the Son of the Son," contains in himself the Seven Creative Hosts (The Sephiroth), and is thus the essence of manifested Wisdom. "He who bathes in the light of Oeaohoo will never be deceived by the veil of Maya." Kwan-Shai-Yin is identical with, and an equivalent of the Sanskrit Avalokiteshwara, and as such he is an androgynous deity, like the Tetragrammaton and all the Logoi* of antiquity. It is only by some sects in China that he is anthropomorphized and represented with female attributes,** when, under his female aspect, he becomes Kwan-Yin, the goddess of mercy, called the "Divine Voice."*** The latter is the patron deity of Thibet and of the island of Puto in China, where both deities have a number of monasteries.**** (See Part II. Kwan-Shai-Yin and Kwan-yin.)
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dogmatic Christian, but the Theosophist and the Occultist must award the palm of logic to the converted Hindu. The esoteric Christos in the gnosis is, of course, sexless, but in exoteric theology he is male and female. *** The Gnostic Sophia, "Wisdom" who is "the Mother" of the Ogdoad (Aditi, in a certain sense, with her eight sons), is the Holy Ghost and the Creator of all, as in the ancient systems. The "father" is a far later invention. The earliest manifested Logos was female everywhere -- the mother of the seven planetary powers. **** See "Chinese Buddhism," by the Rev. J. C. Edkins, who always gives correct facts, although his conclusions are very frequently erroneous.

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(b) "The "Dragon of Wisdom" is the One, the "Eka" (Sanskrit) or Saka. It is curious that Jehovah's name in Hebrew should also be One, Echod. "His name is Echod": say the Rabbins. The philologists ought to decide which of the two is derived from the other -- linguistically and symbolically: surely, not the Sanskrit? The "One" and the Dragon are expressions used by the ancients in connection with their respective Logoi. Jehovah -- esoterically (as Elohim) -- is also the Serpent or Dragon that tempted Eve, and the "Dragon" is an old glyph for "Astral Light" (Primordial Principle), "which is the Wisdom of Chaos." Archaic philosophy, recognizing neither Good nor Evil as a fundamental or independent power, but starting from the Absolute ALL (Universal Perfection eternally), traced both through the course of natural evolution to pure Light condensing gradually into form, hence becoming Matter or Evil. It was left with the early and ignorant Christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem (the Dragon) into the absurd superstition called the "Devil." They took it from the later Zoroastrians, who saw devils or the Evil in the Hindu Devas, and the word Evil thus became by a double transmutation D'Evil in every tongue (Diabolos, Diable, Diavolo, Teufel). But the Pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. The primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine Wisdom and Perfection, and had always stood for psychical Regeneration and Immortality. Hence -- Hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; Moses, initiated in the wisdom of Hermes, following suit in Genesis; the Gnostic's Serpent with the seven vowels over its head, being the emblem of the seven hierarchies of the Septenary or Planetary Creators. Hence, also, the Hindu serpent Sesha or Ananta, "the Infinite," a name of Vishnu, whose first Vahan or vehicle on the primordial waters is this serpent.* Yet they all made a difference between the good and the bad Serpent (the Astral Light of
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the Kabalists) -- between the former, the embodiment of divine Wisdom in the region of the Spiritual, and the latter, Evil, on the plane of matter.* Jesus accepted the serpent as a synonym of Wisdom, and this formed part of his teaching: "Be ye wise as serpents," he says. "In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone" (Book of Sarparajni.) The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, "the Serpent Queen," and "the Mother of all that moves." Before our globe became egg-shaped (and the Universe also) "a long trail of Cosmic dust (or fire mist) moved and writhed like a serpent in Space." The "Spirit of God moving on Chaos" was symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its mouth -- which symbolises not only Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the Universe from that fiery mist. The Universe, as well as the Earth and Man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. The serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the Greek emblem of Psyche, the human soul. The "Dragon" was also the symbol of the Logos with the Egyptians, as with the Gnostics. In the "Book of Hermes," Pymander, the oldest and the most spiritual of the Logoi of the Western Continent, appears to Hermes in the shape of a Fiery Dragon of "Light, Fire, and Flame." Pymander, the "Thought Divine" personified, says: The Light is me, I am the Nous (the mind or Manu), I am thy God, and I am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow ("Darkness," or the concealed Deity). I am the germ of thought, the resplendent Word, the Son of God. All that thus sees and hears in thee is the Verbum of the Master, it is the Thought (Mahat) which is God, the Father.**
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latter does not place at the head and Evolution of Life "the Father," who comes third and is the "Son of the Mother," but the "Eternal and Ceaseless Breath of the ALL." The Mahat (Understanding, Universal Mind, Thought, etc.), before it manifests itself as Brahma or Siva, appears as Vishnu, says Sankhya Sara (p. 16); hence Mahat has several aspects, just as the logos has. Mahat is called the Lord, in the Primary Creation, and is, in this sense, Universal Cognition or Thought Divine; but, "That Mahat which was first produced is (afterwards) called Ego-ism, when it is born as "I," that is said to be the second Creation" (Anugita, ch. xxvi.). And the translator (an able and learned Brahmin, not a European Orientalist) explains in a foot-note (6), "i.e., when Mahat develops into the feeling of SelfConsciousness -- I -- then it assumes the name of Egoism," which, translated into our esoteric phraseology, means when Mahat is transformed into the human Manas (or even that of the finite gods), and becomes Aham-ship. Why it is called the Mahat of the Second creation (or the ninth, that of the Kumara in Vishnu Purana) will be explained in Book II. The "Sea of Fire" is then the Super-Astral (i.e., noumenal) Light, the first radiation from the Root, the Mulaprakriti, the undifferentiated Cosmic Substance, which becomes Astral Matter. It is also called the "Fiery Serpent," as above described. If the student bears in mind that there is but One Universal Element, which is infinite, unborn, and undying, and that all the rest -- as in the world of phenomena -- are but so many various differentiated aspects and transformations (correlations, they are now called) of that One, from Cosmical down to microcosmical effects, from super-human down to human and sub-human beings, the totality, in short, of objective existence -- then the first and chief difficulty will disappear and Occult Cosmology may be mastered.* All the Kabalists and Occultists, Eastern and Western, recognise (a)
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* In the Egyptian as in the Indian theogony there was a concealed deity, the ONE, and the creative, androgynous god. Thus Shoo is the god of creation and Osiris is, in his original primary form, the "god whose name is unknown." (See Mariette's Abydos II., p. 63, and Vol. III., pp. 413, 414, No. 1122.)

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the identity of "Father-Mother" with primordial AEther or Akasa, (Astral Light)*; and (b) its homogeneity before the evolution of the "Son," cosmically Fohat, for it is Cosmic Electricity. "Fohat hardens and scatters the seven brothers" (Book III. Dzyan); which means that the primordial Electric Entity -- for the Eastern Occultists insist that Electricity is an Entity -- electrifies into life, and separates primordial stuff or pregenetic matter into atoms, themselves the source of all life and consciousness. "There exists an universal agent unique of all forms and of life, that is called Od,** Ob, and Aour, active and passive, positive and negative, like day and night: it is the first light in Creation" (Eliphas Levi's Kabala): --- the first Light of the primordial Elohim -- the Adam, "male and female" -or (scientifically) ELECTRICITY AND LIFE. (c) The ancients represented it by a serpent, for "Fohat hisses as he glides hither and thither" (in zigzags). The Kabala figures it with the Hebrew letter Teth , whose symbol is the serpent which played such a prominent part in the Mysteries. Its universal value is nine, for it is the ninth letter of the alphabet and the ninth door of the fifty portals or gateways that lead to the concealed mysteries of being. It is the magical agent par excellence, and designates in Hermetic philosophy "Life infused into
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primordial matter," the essence that composes all things, and the spirit that determines their form. But there are two secret Hermetical operations, one spiritual, the other material-correlative, and for ever united. "Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtile from the solid . . . that which ascends from earth to heaven and descends again from heaven to earth. It (the subtile light), is the strong force of every force, for it conquers every subtile thing and penetrates into every solid. Thus was the world formed" (Hermes). It was not Zeno alone, the founder of the Stoics, who taught that the
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* See next note. ** Od is the pure life-giving Light, or magnetic fluid; Ob the messenger of death used by the sorcerers, the nefarious evil fluid; Aour is the synthesis of the two, Astral Light proper. Can the Philologists tell why Od -- a term used by Reichenbach to denominate the vital fluid -- is also a Tibetan word meaning light, brightness, radiancy? It equally means "Sky" in an occult sense. Whence the root of the word? But Akasa is not quite Ether, but far higher than that, as will be shown.

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Universe evolves, when its primary substance is transformed from the state of fire into that of air, then into water, etc. Heracleitus of Ephesus maintained that the one principle that underlies all phenomena in Nature is fire. The intelligence that moves the Universe is fire, and fires is intelligence. And while Anaximenes said the same of air, and Thales of Miletus (600 years B.C.) of water, the Esoteric Doctrine reconciles all those philosophers by showing that though each was right the system of none was complete. ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 8. WHERE WAS THE GERM, AND WHERE WAS NOW DARKNESS? WHERE IS THE SPIRIT OF THE FLAME THAT BURNS IN THY LAMP, OH LANOO? THE GERM IS THAT, AND THAT IS LIGHT; THE WHITE BRILLIANT SON OF THE DARK HIDDEN FATHER (a). (a) The answer to the first question, suggested by the second, which is the reply of the teacher to the pupil, contains in a single phrase one of the most essential truths of occult philosophy. It indicates the existence of things imperceptible to our physical senses which are of far greater importance, more real and more permanent, than those that appeal to these senses themselves. Before the Lanoo can hope to understand the transcendentally metaphysical problem contained in the first question he must be able to answer the second, while the very answer he gives to the second will furnish him with the clue to the correct reply to the first.

In the Sanscrit Commentary on this Stanza, the terms used for the concealed and the unrevealed Principle are many. In the earliest MSS. of Indian literature this Unrevealed, Abstract Deity has no name. It is called generally "That" (Tad in Sanskrit), and means all that is, was, and will be, or that can be so received by the human mind. Among such appellations, given, of course, only in esoteric philosophy, as the "Unfathomable Darkness," the "Whirlwind," etc. -- it is also called the "It of the Kalahansa, the Kala-ham-sa," and even the "Kali Hamsa," (Black swan). Here the m and the n are convertible, and

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both sound like the nasal French an or am, or, again, en or em (Ennui, Embarras, etc.) As in the Hebrew Bible, many a mysterious sacred name in Sanscrit conveys to the profane ear no more than some ordinary, and often vulgar word, because it is concealed anagrammatically or otherwise. This word of Hansa or esoterically "hamsa" is just such a case. Hamsa is equal to a-ham-sa, three words meaning "I am he" (in English), while divided in still another way it will read "So-ham," "he (is) I" -Soham being equal to Sah, "he," and aham, "I," or "I am he." In this alone is contained the universal mystery, the doctrine of the identity of man's essence with god-essence, for him who understands the language of wisdom. Hence the glyph of, and the allegory about, Kalahansa (or hamsa), and the name given to Brahma neuter (later on, to the male Brahma) of "Hansa-Vahana," he who uses the Hansa as his vehicle." The same word may be read "Kalaham-sa" or "I am I" in the eternity of Time, answering to the Biblical, or rather Zoroastrian "I am that I am." The same doctrine is found in the Kabala, as witness the following extract from an unpublished MS. by Mr. S. Liddell McGregor Mathers, the , Hoa, Atah, Ani; He, Thou, I; are used learned Kabalist: "The three pronouns to symbolize the ideas of Macroprosopus and Microprosopus in the Hebrew Qabalah. Hoa, "He," is applied to the hidden and concealed Macroprosopus; Atah, "Thou," to Microprosopus; and Ani, "I," to the latter when He is represented as speaking. (See Lesser Holy Assembly, 204 et seq.) It is to be noted that each of these names consists of three letters, of which the letter Aleph , A, forms the conclusion of the first word Hoa, and the commencement of Atah and Ani, as if it were the connecting link is the symbol of the Unity and consequently of the unvarying Idea of the Divine between them. But in the name Hoa are the letters and , the symbols operating through all these. But behind the of the numbers Six and Five, the Male and the Female, the Hexagram and the Pentagram. And the numbers of these three words, Hoa Atah Ani, are 12, 406, and 61, which are resumed in the key numbers of 3, 10, and 7, by the Qabalah of the Nine Chambers, which is a form of the exegetical rule of Temura." It is useless to attempt to explain the mystery in full. Materialists and the men of modern Science will never understand it, since, in order

to obtain clear perception of it, one has first of all to admit the postulate of a universally diffused, omnipresent, eternal Deity in Nature; secondly, to have fathomed the mystery of electricity in its true essence; and thirdly, to credit man with being the septenary symbol, on the terrestrial plane, of the One Great UNIT (the Logos), which is Itself the Seven-vowelled sign, the Breath crystallized into the WORD.* He who believes in all this, has also to believe in the multiple combination of the seven planets of Occultism and of the Kabala, with the twelve zodiacal signs; to attribute, as we do, to each planet and to each constellation an influence which, in the words of Ely Star (a French Occultist), "is proper to it, beneficent or maleficent, and this, after the planetary Spirit which rules it, who, in his turn, is capable of influencing men and things which are found in harmony with him and with which he has any affinity." For these reasons, and since few believe in the foregoing, all that can now be given is that in both cases the symbol of Hansa (whether "I," "He," Goose or Swan) is an important symbol, representing, for instance, Divine Wisdom, Wisdom in darkness beyond the reach of men. For all exoteric purposes, Hansa, as every Hindu knows, is a fabulous bird, which, when given milk mixed with water for its food (in the allegory) separated the two, drinking the milk and leaving the water; thus showing inherent wisdom -- milk standing symbolically for spirit, and water for matter. That this allegory is very ancient and dates from the very earliest archaic period, is shown by the mention (in Bhagavata Purana) of a certain caste named "Hamsa" or "Hansa," which was the "one caste" par excellence; when far back in the mists of a forgotten past there was among the Hindus only "One Veda, One Deity, One Caste." There is also a range in the Himalayas, described in the old books as being situated north of Mount Meru, called "Hamsa," and connected with episodes pertaining to the history of religious mysteries and initiations. As to the name of Kala-Hansa being the supposed vehicle of Brahma-Prajapati, in the exoteric texts and translations of the
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* This is again similar to the doctrine of Fichte and German Pantheists. The former reveres Jesus as the great teacher who inculcated the unity of the spirit of man with the God-Spirit (the Adwaita doctrine) or universal Principle. It is difficult to find a single speculation in Western metaphysics which has not been anticipated by Archaic Eastern philosophy. From Kant to Herbert Spencer, it is all a more or less distorted echo of the Dwaita, Adwaita, and Vedantic doctrines generally.

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Orientalists, it is quite a mistake. Brahma, the neuter, is called by them Kala-Hansa and Brahma, the male, Hansa-Vahana, because forsooth "his vehicle or Vahan is a swan or goose" (vide "the Hindu Classical Dictionary.") This is a purely exoteric gloss. Esoterically and logically, if Brahma, the infinite, is all that is described by the Orientalists, namely, agreeably with the Vedantic texts, an abstract deity in no way characterised by the description of any human attributes, and it is still maintained that he or it is called Kala-Hansa -- then how can it ever become the Vahan of Brahma, the manifested finite god? It is quite the reverse. The "Swan or goose" (Hansa) is the symbol of that male or temporary deity, as he, the emanation of the primordial Ray, is made to serve as a Vahan or vehicle for that divine Ray, which otherwise could not manifest itself in the Universe, being, antiphrastically, itself an emanation of "Darkness" -- for our human intellect, at any rate. It is Brahma, then, who is
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Kala-Hansa, and the Ray, the Hansa-Vahana. As to the strange symbol chosen, it is equally suggestive; the true mystic significance being the idea of a universal matrix, figured by the primordial waters of the "deep," or the opening for the reception, and subsequently for the issue, of that one ray (the Logos), which contains in itself the other seven procreative rays or powers (the logoi or builders). Hence the choice by the Rosecroix of the aquatic fowl -- whether swan or pelican,* with seven young ones for a symbol, modified and adapted to the religion of every country. En-Soph is called the "Fiery Soul of the Pelican" in the Book of Numbers.** (See Part II. "The Hidden Deity and its Symbols and Glyphs.") Appearing with every Manvantara as Narayan, or Swayambhuva (the
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* Whether the genus of the bird be cygnus, anser, or pelecanus, it is no matter, as it is an aquatic bird floating or moving on the waters like the Spirit, and then issuing from those waters to give birth to other beings. The true significance of the symbol of the Eighteenth Degree of the Rose-Croix is precisely this, though poetised later on into the motherly feeling of the Pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little ones with its blood. ** The reason why Moses forbids eating the pelican and swan, classing the two among the unclean fowls, and permits eating "bald locusts, beetles, and the grasshopper after his kind" (Leviticus xi. and Deuteronomy xiv.) is a purely physiological one, and has to do with mystic symbology only in so far as the word "unclean," like every other word, ought not to be read and understood literally, as it is esoteric like all the [[Footnote continued on next page]]

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Self-Existent), and penetrating into the Mundane Egg, it emerges from it at the end of the divine incubation as Brahma or Prajapati, a progenitor of the future Universe into which he expands. He is Purusha (spirit), but he is also Prakriti (matter). Therefore it is only after separating himself into two halves -- Brahma-vach (the female) and Brahma-Viraj (the male), that the Prajapati becomes the male Brahma. ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 9. LIGHT IS COLD FLAME, AND FLAME IS FIRE, AND THE FIRE PRODUCES HEAT, WHICH YIELDS WATER, THE WATER OF LIFE IN THE GREAT MOTHER (Chaos) (a). (a) It must be remembered that the words "Light," "Fire," and "Flame" used in the Stanzas have been adopted by the translators thereof from the vocabulary of the old "Fire philosophers,"** in order to render better the meaning of the archaic terms and symbols employed in the original. Otherwise they would have remained entirely unintelligible to a European reader. But to a student of the Occult the
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terms used will be sufficiently clear. All these -- "Light," "Flame," "Hot," "Cold," "Fire," "Heat," "Water," and the "water of life" are all, on our plane, the progeny; or as a modern physicist would say, the correlations of ELECTRICITY. Mighty word, and a still mightier symbol! Sacred generator of a no less sacred progeny; of fire -- the creator, the preserver and the destroyer; of light -- the essence of our divine ancestors; of flame -- the Soul of things. Electricity, the ONE Life at the upper rung of Being, and Astral Fluid, the Athanor of the Alchemists, at its lowest; GOD and DEVIL, GOOD and EVIL. . . .
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] rest, and may as well mean "holy" as not. It is a blind, very suggestive in connection with certain superstitions -- e.g., that of the Russian people who will not use the pigeon for food; not because it is "unclean," but because the "Holy Ghost" is credited with having appeared under the form of a Dove. ** Not the Mediaeval Alchemists, but the Magi and Fire-Worshippers, from whom the Rosicrucians or the Philosophers per ignem, the successors of the theurgists borrowed all their ideas concerning Fire, as a mystic and divine element.

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Now, why is Light called in the Stanzas "cold flame"? Because in the order of Cosmic evolution (as taught by the Occultist), the energy that actuates matter after its first formation into atoms is generated on our plane by Cosmic heat; and because Kosmos, in the sense of dissociated matter, was not, before that period. The first primordial matter, eternal and coeval with Space, "which has neither a beginning nor an end," is "neither hot nor cold, but is of its own special nature," says the Commentary (Book II). Heat and cold are relative qualities and pertain to the realms of the manifested worlds, which all proceed from the manifested Hyle, which, in its absolutely latent aspect, is referred to as the "cold Virgin," and when awakened to life, as the "Mother." The ancient Western Cosmogonic myths state that at first there was but cold mist which was the Father, and the prolific slime (the Mother, Ilus or Hyle), from which crept forth the Mundane snake-matter, (Isis, vol. i., p. 146). Primordial matter, then, before it emerges from the plane of the never-manifesting, and awakens to the thrill of action under the impulse of Fohat, is but "a cool Radiance, colourless, formless, tasteless, and devoid of every quality and aspect." Even such are her first-born, the "four sons," who "are One, and become Seven," -- the entities, by whose qualifications and names the ancient Eastern Occultists called the four of the seven primal "centres of Forces," or atoms, that develop later into the great Cosmic "Elements," now divided into the seventy or so sub-elements, known to science. The four primal natures of the first Dhyan Chohans, are the so-called (for want of better terms) "Akasic," "Ethereal," "Watery," and "Fiery," answering, in the terminology of practical occultism, to scientific definitions of gases, which, to convey a clear idea to both Occultists and laymen, must be defined as Parahydrogenic,* Paraoxygenic, Oxyhydrogenic, and Ozonic, or perhaps Nitr-ozonic; the latter forces or gases (in Occultism, supersensuous, yet atomic substances) being the most effective and active when energising on the plane of more grossly differentiated matter.** These are both electro-positive and electro-negative.
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*[[Para]], "beyond," outside. ** Each of these and many more are probably the missing links of chemistry. They are known by other names in Alchemy and to the Occultists who practise in phenomenal powers. It is by combining and recombining in a certain way (or dissociating) the "Elements" by means of astral fire that the greatest phenomena are produced.

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STANZA III. -- Continued. 10. FATHER-MOTHER SPIN A WEB WHOSE UPPER END IS FASTENED TO SPIRIT (Purusha), THE LIGHT OF THE ONE DARKNESS, AND THE LOWER ONE TO MATTER (Prakriti) ITS (the Spirit's) SHADOWY END; AND THIS WEB IS THE UNIVERSE SPUN OUT OF THE TWO SUBSTANCES MADE IN ONE, WHICH IS SWABHAVAT (a). (a) In the Mandukya (Mundaka) Upanishad it is written, "As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground . . . so is the Universe derived from the undecaying one" (I. 1. 7). Brahma, as "the germ of unknown Darkness," is the material from which all evolves and develops "as the web from the spider, as foam from the water," etc. This is only graphic and true, if Brahma the "Creator" is, as a term, derived from the root brih, to increase or expand. Brahma "expands" and becomes the Universe woven out of his own substance. The same idea has been beautifully expressed by Goethe, who says: "Thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou see'st Him by." ------STANZA III. -- Continued. `. IT (the Web) EXPANDS WHEN THE BREATH OF FIRE (the Father) IS UPON IT; IT CONTRACTS WHEN THE BREATH OF THE MOTHER (the root of Matter) TOUCHES IT. THEN THE SONS (the Elements with their respective Powers, or Intelligences) DISSOCIATE AND SCATTER, TO RETURN INTO THEIR MOTHER'S BOSOM AT THE END OF THE "GREAT DAY" AND REBECOME ONE WITH HER (a). WHEN IT (the Web) IS COOLING, IT BECOMES RADIANT, ITS SONS EXPAND AND CONTRACT THROUGH THEIR OWN SELVES AND HEARTS; THEY EMBRACE INFINITUDE. (b) The expanding of the Universe under the breath of FIRE is very suggestive in the light of the "Fire
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heavenly bodies into their primeval one element, explains the commentary. "Once disintegrated into its primal constituent by getting within the attraction and reach of a focus, or centre of heat (energy), of which many are carried about to and fro in space, a body, whether alive or dead, will be vapourised and held in "the bosom of the Mother" until Fohat, gathering a few of the clusters of Cosmic matter (nebulae) will, by giving it an impulse, set it in motion anew, develop the required heat, and then leave it to follow its own new growth. The expanding and contracting of the Web -- i.e., the world stuff or atoms -- expresses here the pulsatory movement; for it is the regular contraction and expansion of the infinite and shoreless Ocean of that which we may call the noumenon of matter emanated by Swabhavat, which causes the universal vibration of atoms. But it is also suggestive of something else. It shows that the ancients were acquainted with that which is now the puzzle of many scientists and especially of astronomers: the cause of the first ignition of matter or the world-stuff, the paradox of the heat produced by the refrigerative contraction and other such Cosmic riddles. For it points unmistakeably to a knowledge by the ancients of such phenomena. "There is heat internal and heat external in every atom," say the manuscript Commentaries, to which the writer has had access; "the breath of the Father (or Spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the Mother (matter);" and they give explanations which show that the modern theory of the extinction of the solar fires by loss of heat through radiation, is erroneous. The assumption is false even on the Scientists' own admission. For as Professor Newcomb points out (Popular Astronomy, pp. 506-508), "by losing heat, a gaseous body contracts, and the heat generated by the contraction exceeds that which it had to lose in order to produce the contraction." This paradox, that a body gets hotter as the shrinking produced by its getting colder is greater, led to long disputes. The surplus of heat, it was argued, was lost by radiation, and to assume that the temperature is not lowered pari passu with a decrease of volume under a constant pressure, is to set at nought the law of Charles (Nebular Theory, Winchell). Contraction develops heat, it is true; but contraction (from cooling) is incapable of developing the whole amount of heat at any time existing in the mass, or even of maintaining a body at a constant temperature, etc. Professor Winchell tries to reconcile the paradox -only a seeming one in fact, as

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Homer Lanes proved, -- by suggesting "something besides heat." "May it not be," he asks, "simply a repulsion among the molecules, which varies according to some law of the distance?" But even this will be found irreconcileable, unless this "something besides heat" is ticketed "Causeless Heat," the "Breath of Fire," the all-creative Force Plus ABSOLUTE INTELLIGENCE, which physical science is not likely to accept.
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However it may be, the reading of this Stanza shows it, notwithstanding its archaic phraseology, to be more scientific than even modern science. ------STANZA III. -- Continued. 12. THEN SVABHAVAT SENDS FOHAT TO HARDEN THE ATOMS. EACH (of these) IS A PART OF THE WEB (Universe). REFLECTING THE "SELF-EXISTENT LORD" (Primeval Light) LIKE A MIRROR, EACH BECOMES IN TURN A WORLD.* . . . "Fohat hardens the atoms"; i.e., by infusing energy into them: he scatters the atoms or primordial matter. "He scatters himself while scattering matter into atoms" (MSS. Commentaries.) It is through Fohat that the ideas of the Universal Mind are impressed upon matter. Some faint idea of the nature of Fohat may be gathered from the appellation "Cosmic Electricity" sometimes applied to it; but to the commonly known properties of electricity must, in this case, be added others, including intelligence. It is of interest to note that modern science has come to the conclusion, that all cerebration and brain-activity are attended by electrical phenomena. (For further details as to "Fohat" See Stanza V. and Comments.")
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* This is said in the sense that the flame from a fire is endless, and that the lights of the whole Universe could be lit at one simple rush-light without diminishing its flame. ---------------------

STANZA IV. COMMENTARY. 1. LISTEN, YE SONS OF THE EARTH, TO YOUR INSTRUCTORS -- THE SONS OF THE FIRE (a). LEARN THERE IS NEITHER FIRST NOR LAST; FOR ALL IS ONE NUMBER, ISSUED FROM NO NUMBER (b). (a) These terms, the "Sons of the Fire," the "Sons of the Fire-Mist," and the like, require explanation. They are connected with a great primordial and universal mystery, and it is not easy to make it clear. There is a passage in the Bhagavatgita (ch. viii.) wherein Krishna, speaking symbolically and esoterically, says: "I will state the times (conditions) . . . at which devotees departing (from this life) do so never to return (be reborn), or to return (to incarnate again). The Fire, the Flame, the day, the bright (lucky) fortnight, the six months of the Northern solstice, departing (dying) in these, those who know the Brahman (Yogis) go to the Brahman. Smoke, night, the dark (unlucky) fortnight, the six months of the Southern solstice, (dying) in these, the devotee goes to the lunar light (or mansion the astral light also) and returns (is reborn). These two paths, bright and dark, are said to be eternal in this world (or great kalpa, 'Age'). By the one a man goes never to come back, by the other he returns." Now these names, "Fire," "Flame," "Day," the "bright fortnight," etc., as "Smoke," "Night," and so on, leading only to the end of the lunar path are incomprehensible without a knowledge of Esotericism. These are all names of various deities which preside over the Cosmo-psychic Powers. We often speak of the Hierarchy of "Flames" (see Book II.) of the "Sons of Fire," etc. Sankaracharya the greatest of the Esoteric masters of India, says that fire means a deity which presides over Time (kala). The able translator of Bhagavatgita, Kashinath Trimbak Telang, M.A., of Bombay, confesses he has "no clear notion of the meaning of these verses" (p. 81, footnote). It seems quite clear, on the contrary, to him who knows the occult doctrine. With these verses the mystic sense of the solar and lunar symbols are connected: the Pitris are lunar deities and our ancestors, because they created the physical man.

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descended on the Apostles like "cloven tongues of fire," (Acts ii. v. 3); Vishnu will return on Kalki, the White Horse, as the last Avatar amid fire and flames; and Sosiosh will be brought down equally on a White Horse in a "tornado of fire." "And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him . . . . is called the Word of God," (Rev. xix. 13) amid flaming Fire. Fire is AEther in its purest form, and hence is not regarded as matter, but it is the unity of Aether -- the second manifested deity -- in its universality. But there are two "Fires" and a distinction is made between them in the Occult teachings. The first, or the purely Formless and invisible Fire concealed in the Central Spiritual Sun, is spoken of as "triple" (metaphysically); while the Fire of the manifested Kosmos is Septenary, throughout both the Universe and our Solar System. "The fire or knowledge burns up all action on the plane of illusion," says the commentary. "Therefore, those who have acquired it and are emancipated, are called 'Fires.' " Speaking of the seven senses symbolised as Hotris, priests, the Brahmana says in Anugita: "Thus these seven (senses, smell and taste, and colour, and sound, etc., etc.) are the causes of emancipation;" and the commentator adds: "It is from these seven from which the Self is to be emancipated. 'I' (am here devoid of qualities) must mean the Self, not the Brahmana who speaks." ("Sacred Books of the East," ed. by Max Muller, Vol. VIII., 278.) (b) The expression "All is One Number, issued from No Number" relates again to that universal and philosophical tenet just explained in Stanza III. (Comm. 4). That which is absolute is of course No Number; but in its later significance it has an application in Space as in Time. It means that not only every increment of time is part of a larger increment, up to the most indefinitely prolonged duration conceivable by the human intellect, but also that no manifested thing can

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be thought of except as part of a larger whole: the total aggregate being the One manifested Universe that issues from the unmanifested or Absolute -- called Non-Being or "No-Number," to distinguish it from BEING or "the One Number." ------STANZA IV. -- Continued. (2) LEARN WHAT WE, WHO DESCEND FROM THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN, WE, WHO ARE BORN FROM THE PRIMORDIAL FLAME, HAVE LEARNED FROM OUR FATHERS (a). (a) This is explained in Book II., and this name, "Primordial Flame," corroborates what is said in the first paragraph of the preceding commentary on Stanza IV. The distinction between the "Primordial" and the subsequent seven Builders is this: The former are the Ray and direct emanation of the first "Sacred Four," the Tetraktis, that is, the eternally Self-Existent One (Eternal in Essence note well, not in manifestation, and distinct from the universal ONE). Latent, during Pralaya, and active, during Manvantara, the "Primordial" proceed from "Father-Mother" (SpiritHyle, or Ilus); whereas the other manifested Quaternary and the Seven proceed from the Mother alone.

It is the latter who is the immaculate Virgin-Mother, who is overshadowed, not impregnated, by the Universal MYSTERY -- when she emerges from her state of Laya or undifferentiated condition. In reality, they are, of course, all one; but their aspects on the various planes of being are different. (See Part II., "Theogony of the Creative Gods.") The first "Primordial" are the highest Beings on the Scale of Existence. They are the Archangels of Christianity, those who refuse -- as Michael did in the latter system, and as did the eldest "Mind-born sons" of Brahma (Veddhas) -- to create or rather to multiply. ------STANZA IV. -- Continued. 3. FROM THE EFFULGENCY OF LIGHT -- THE RAY OF THE EVER-DARKNESS -- SPRUNG IN SPACE THE RE-AWAKENED ENERGIES (Dhyan Chohans): THE ONE FROM THE EGG, THE SIX AND THE FIVE (a); THEN THE THREE, THE ONE,

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THE FOUR, THE ONE, THE FIVE -- THE TWICE SEVEN, THE SUM TOTAL (b). AND THESE ARE: THE ESSENCES, THE FLAMES, THE ELEMENTS, THE BUILDERS, THE NUMBERS, THE ARUPA (formless), THE RUPA (with bodies), AND THE FORCE OR DIVINE MAN -- THE SUM TOTAL. AND FROM THE DIVINE MAN EMANATED THE FORMS, THE SPARKS, THE SACRED ANIMALS, AND THE MESSENGERS OF THE SACRED FATHERS (the Pitris) WITHIN THE HOLY FOUR.* (a) This relates to the sacred Science of the Numerals: so sacred, indeed, and so important in the study of Occultism that the subject can hardly be skimmed, even in such a large work as the present. It is on the Hierarchies and correct numbers of these Beings invisible (to us) except upon very rare occasions, that the mystery of the whole Universe is built. The Kumaras, for instance, are called the "Four" though in reality seven in number, because Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatana and Sanat-Kumara are the chief Vaidhatra (their patronymic name), as they spring from the "four-fold mystery." To make the whole clearer we have to turn for our illustrations to tenets more familiar to some of our readers, namely, the Brahminical. According to Manu, Hiranyagarbha is Brahma the first male formed by the undiscernible Causeless CAUSE in a "Golden Egg resplendent as the Sun," as states the Hindu Classical Dictionary. "Hiranyagarbha" means the golden, or rather the "Effulgent Womb" or Egg. The meaning tallies awkwardly with the epithet of "male." Surely the esoteric meaning of the sentence is clear enough. In the Rig Veda it is said: -- "THAT, the one Lord of all beings . . . . the one animating principle of gods and man," arose, in the beginning, in the Golden Womb, Hiranyagarbha -- which is the Mundane Egg or sphere of our Universe. That Being is surely androgynous, and the allegory of Brahma separating into two and recreating in one of his halves (the female Vach) himself as Viraj, is a proof of it.

"The One from the Egg, the Six and the Five," give the number 1065, the value of the first-born (later on the male and female Brahma-Prajapati), who answers to the numbers 7, and 14, and 21 respectively. The Prajapati are, like the Sephiroth, only seven, including the
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synthetic Sephira of the triad from which they spring. Thus from Hiranyagarbha or Prajapati, the triune (primeval Vedic Trimurti, Agni, Vayu, and Surya), emanate the other seven, or again ten, if we separate the first three which exist in one, and one in three, all, moreover, being comprehended within that one "supreme" Parama, called Guhya or " secret," and Sarvatma, the "Super-Soul." "The seven Lords of Being lie concealed in Sarvatma like thoughts in one brain." So are the Sephiroth. It is either seven when counting from the upper Triad headed by Kether, or ten -- exoterically. In the Mahabharata the Prajapati are 21 in number, or ten, six, and five (1065), thrice seven.* (b) "The Three, the One, the Four, the One, the Five" (in their totality -- twice seven) represent 31415 -the numerical hierarchy of the Dhyan-Chohans of various orders, and of the inner or circumscribed world.** When placed on the boundary of the great circle of "Pass not" (see Stanza V.), called also the Dhyanipasa, the "rope of the Angels," the "rope" that hedges off the phenomenal from the noumenal Kosmos, (not falling within the range of our present objective consciousness); this number, when not enlarged by permutation and expansion, is ever 31415 anagrammatically and Kabalistically, being both the number of the circle and the mystic Svastica, the twice seven once more; for whatever way the two sets of figures are counted, when added separately, one figure after another, whether crossways, from right or from left, they will always yield fourteen. Mathematically they represent the well-known calculation, namely, that the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle is as 1 to 3.1415, or the value of the (pi), as this ratio is called -- the symbol being always used in
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* In the Kabala the same numbers are a value of Jehovah, viz., 1065, since the numerical values of the three letters which compose his name -- Jod, Vau and twice He -- are respectively 10 ( ), 6 ( ) and ); or again thrice seven, 21. "Ten is the Mother of the Soul, for Life and Light are therein 5( united," says Hermes. "For number one is born of the Spirit and the number ten from matter (chaos, feminine); the unity has made the ten, the ten the unity" (Book of the Keys). By the means of the Temura, the anagrammatical method of the Kabala, and the knowledge of 1065 (21), a universal science may be obtained regarding Kosmos and its mysteries" (Rabbi Yogel). The Rabbis regard the numbers 10, 6, and 5 as the most sacred of all.

** The reader may be told that an American Kabalist has now discovered the same number for the Elohim. It came to the Jews from Chaldaea. See "Hebrew Metrology" in the Masonic Review, July, 1885, McMillan Lodge, No. 141.

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mathematical formulae to express it. This set of figures must have the same meaning, since the 1 : 314,159, and then again 1 : 3 : 1,415,927 are worked out in the secret calculations to express the various cycles and ages of the "first born," or 311,040,000,000,000 with fractions, and yield the same 13,415 by a process we are not concerned with at present. And it may be shown that Mr. Ralston Skinner, author of The Source of Measures, reads the Hebrew word Alhim in the same number values, by omitting, as said, the ciphers and by permutation -- 13,514: since (a) is 1 : (l) is 3 (or 30); (m) is 4 (40), and anagrammatically -- 31,415 as explained by him. (h) is 5; (i) 1 for 10; and Thus, while in the metaphysical world, the circle with the one central Point in it has no number, and is called Anupadaka (parentless and numberless) -- viz., it can fall under no calculation, -- in the manifested world the mundane Egg or Circle is circumscribed within the groups called the Line, the Triangle, the Pentacle, the second Line and the Cube (or 13514); and when the Point having generated a Line, thus becomes a diameter which stands for the androgynous Logos, then the figures become 31415, or a triangle, a line, a cube, the second line, and a pentacle. "When the Son separates from the Mother he becomes the Father," the diameter standing for Nature, or the feminine principle. Therefore it is said: "In the world of being, the one Point fructifies the Line -- the Virgin Matrix of Kosmos (the egg-shaped zero) -- and the immaculate Mother gives birth to the form that combines all forms." Prajapati is called the first procreating male, and "his Mother's husband."* This gives the key-note to all the later divine sons from immaculate mothers. It is greatly corroborated by the significant fact that Anna (the name of the Mother of the Virgin Mary) now represented by the Roman Catholic church as having given birth to her daughter in an immaculate way ("Mary conceived without sin"), is derived from the Chaldean Ana, heaven, or Astral Light, Anima Mundi; whence Anaitia, Devi-durga, the wife of Siva, is also called Annapurna,
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* We find the same expression in Egypt. Mout signifies, for one thing, "Mother," and shows the character assigned to her in the triad of that country. "She was no less the mother than the wife of Ammon, one of the principle titles of the god being "the husband of his mother." The goddess Mout, or Mut, is addressed as "our lady," the "queen of Heaven" and of "the Earth," thus "sharing these titles with the other mother goddesses, Isis, Hathor, etc." (Maspero).

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and Kanya, the Virgin; "Uma-Kanya" being her esoteric name, and meaning the "Virgin of light," Astral Light in one of its multitudinous aspects.
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(c) The Devas, Pitris, Rishis; the Suras and the Asuras; the Daityas and Adityas; the Danavas and Gandharvas, etc., etc., have all their synonyms in our Secret Doctrine, as well as in the Kabala and the Hebrew Angelology; but it is useless to give their ancient names, as it would only create confusion. Many of these may be also found now, even in the Christian hierarchy of divine and celestial powers. All those Thrones and Dominions, Virtues and Principalities, Cherubs, Seraphs and demons, the various denizens of the Sidereal World, are the modern copies of archaic prototypes. The very symbolism in their names, when transliterated and arranged in Greek and Latin, are sufficient to show it, as will be proved in several cases further on. The "Sacred Animals" are found in the Bible as well as in the Kabala, and they have their meaning (a very profound one, too) on the page of the origins of Life. In the Sepher Jezirah it is stated that "God engraved in the Holy Four the throne of his glory, the Ophanim (Wheels or the World-Spheres), the Seraphim,* the Sacred Animals, and the ministering angels, and from these three (the Air, Water, and Fire or Ether) he formed his habitation." Thus was the world made "through three Seraphim -- Sepher, Saphar, and Sipur," or "through Number, Numbers, and Numbered." With the astronomical key these "Sacred Animals" become the signs of the Zodiac.
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* This is the literal translation from the IXth and Xth Sections: "Ten numbers without what? One: the spirit of the living God . . . . who liveth in eternities! Voice and Spirit and Word, and this is the Holy Spirit. Two: Spirit out of Spirit. He designed and hewed therewith twenty-two letters of foundation, three Mothers and seven double and Twelve single, and one spirit out of them. Three: Water out of spirit; he designed and hewed with them the barren and the void, mud and earth. He designed them as a flowerbed, hewed them as a wall, covered them as a paving. Four: Fire out of water. He designed and hewed therewith the throne of glory and the wheels, and the seraphim and the holy animals and the ministering angels, and of the three He founded his dwelling, as it is said, He makes his angels spirits and his servants fiery flames!" Which words "founded his dwelling" show clearly that in the Kabala, as in India, the Deity was considered as the Universe, and was not, in his origin, the extracosmic God he is now.

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STANZA IV. -- Continued. 4. THIS WAS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE -- THE DIVINE SEPTENARY. THE SPARKS OF THE SEVEN ARE SUBJECT TO, AND THE SERVANTS OF, THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, AND THE SEVENTH OF THE SEVEN (a). THESE ("sparks") ARE CALLED SPHERES, TRIANGLES, CUBES, LINES, AND MODELLERS; FOR THUS STANDS THE ETERNAL NIDANA -- THE OI-HA-HOU (the Permutation of Oeaohoo) (b).* (a) This Sloka gives again a brief analysis of the Hierarchies of the Dhyan Chohans, called Devas (gods) in India, or the conscious intelligent powers in Nature. To this Hierarchy correspond the actual
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types into which humanity may be divided; for humanity, as a whole, is in reality a materialized though as yet imperfect expression thereof. The "army of the Voice" is a term closely connected with the mystery of Sound and Speech, as an effect and corollary of the cause -- Divine Thought. As beautifully expressed by P. Christian, the learned author of "The History of Magic" and of "L'Homme Rouge des Tuileries," the word spoken by, as well as the name of, every individual largely determine his future fate. Why? Because --- "When our Soul (mind) creates or evokes a thought, the representative sign of that thought is self-engraved upon the astral fluid, which is the receptacle and, so to say, the mirror of all the manifestations of being. "The sign expresses the thing: the thing is the (hidden or occult) virtue of the sign. "To pronounce a word is to evoke a thought, and make it present: the magnetic potency of the human speech is the commencement of every manifestation in the Occult World. To utter a Name is not only to define a Being (an Entity), but to place it under and condemn it through the emission of the Word (Verbum), to the influence of one or more Occult potencies. Things are, for every one of us, that which it (the Word) makes them while naming them. The Word (Verbum) or the speech of every man is, quite unconsciously to himself, a BLESSING or a CURSE; this is why our present ignorance about the properties or attributes of the IDEA as well as about the attributes and properties of MATTER, is often fatal to us.
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* The literal signification of the word is, among the Eastern Occultists of the North, a circular wind, whirlwind; but in this instance, it is a term to denote the ceaseless and eternal Cosmic Motion; or rather the Force that moves it, which Force is tacitly accepted as the Deity but never named. It is the eternal Karana, the ever-acting Cause.

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"Yes, names (and words) are either BENEFICENT or MALEFICENT; they are, in a certain sense, either venomous or health-giving, according to the hidden influences attached by Supreme Wisdom to their elements, that is to say, to the LETTERS which compose them, and the NUMBERS correlative to these letters." This is strictly true as an esoteric teaching accepted by all the Eastern Schools of Occultism. In the Sanskrit, as also in the Hebrew and all other alphabets, every letter has its occult meaning and its rationale; it is a cause and an effect of a preceding cause and a combination of these very often produces the most magical effect. The vowels, especially, contain the most occult and formidable potencies. The Mantras (esoterically, magical rather than religious) are chanted by the Brahmins and so are the Vedas and other Scriptures.

The "Army of the Voice," is the prototype of the "Host of the Logos," or the "WORD" of the Sepher Jezirah, called in the Secret Doctrine "the One Number issued from No-Number" -- the One Eternal Principle. The esoteric theogony begins with the One, manifested, therefore not eternal in its presence and being, if eternal in its essence; the number of the numbers and numbered -- the latter proceeding from the Voice, the feminine Vach, Satarupa "of the hundred forms," or Nature. It is from this number 10, or creative nature, the Mother (the occult cypher, or "nought," ever procreating and multiplying in union with the Unit "I," one, or the Spirit of Life), that the whole Universe proceeded. In the Anugita a conversation is given (ch. vi., 15) between a Brahmana and his wife, on the origin of Speech and its occult properties.* The wife asks how Speech came into existence, and which was prior to the other, Speech or Mind. The Brahmana tells her that the Apana (inspirational breath) becoming lord, changes that intelligence, which does not understand Speech or Words, into the state of Apana, and thus opens the mind. Thereupon he tells her a story, a dialogue between Speech and Mind. "Both went to the Self of Being (i.e., to the individual Higher Self, as Nilakantha thinks, to Prajapati, according to the commentator Arjuna Misra), and asked him to destroy their doubts and decide which of them preceded and was superior to the
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* Anugita forms part of the Asvamedha Parvan of the "Mahabharata." The translator of the Bhagavatgita, edited by Max Muller, regards it as a continuation of the Bhagavatgita. Its original is one of the oldest Upanishads.

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other. To this the lord said: 'Mind is Superior.' But Speech answered the Self of Being, by saying: 'I verily yield (you) your desires,' meaning that by speech he acquired what he desired. Thereupon again, the Self told her that there are two minds, the 'movable' and the 'immovable.' 'The immovable is with me,' he said, 'the movable is in your dominion' (i.e. of Speech) on the plane of matter. To that you are superior. But inasmuch, O beautiful one, as you came personally to speak to me (in the way you did, i.e. proudly), therefore, O, Sarasvati! you shall never speak after (hard) exhalation." "The goddess Speech" (Sarasvati, a later form or aspect of Vach, the goddess also of secret learning or Esoteric Wisdom), "verily, dwelt always between the Prana and the Apana. But O noble one! going with the Apana wind (vital air), though impelled, without the Prana (expirational breath), she ran up to Prajapati (Brahma), saying, 'Be pleased, O venerable sir!' Then the Prana appeared again, nourishing Speech. And, therefore, Speech never speaks after (hard or inspirational) exhalation. It is always noisy or noiseless. Of these two, the noiseless is the superior to the noisy (Speech) . . . . The (speech) which is produced in the body by means of the Prana, and which then goes (is transformed) into Apana, and then becoming assimilated with the Udana (physical organs of Speech) . . . then finally dwells in the Samana ('at the navel in the form of sound, as the material cause of all words,' says Arjuna Misra). So Speech formerly spoke. Hence the mind is distinguished by reason of its being immovable, and the Goddess (Speech) by reason of her being movable." This allegory is at the root of the Occult law, which prescribes silence upon the knowledge of certain
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secret and invisible things perceptible only to the spiritual mind (the 6th sense), and which cannot be expressed by "noisy" or uttered speech. This chapter of Anugita explains, says Arjuna Misra, Pranayama, or regulation of the breath in Yoga practices. This mode, however, without the previous acquisition of, or at least full understanding of the two higher senses, of which there are seven, as will be shown, pertains rather to the lower Yoga. The Hatha so called was and still is discountenanced by the Arhats. It is injurious to the health and alone can never develop into Raj Yoga. This story is quoted to show how inseparably connected are, in the metaphysics of old, intelligent beings, or rather "Intelligences," with every sense or

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function whether physical or mental. The Occult claim that there are seven senses in man, as in nature, as there are seven states of consciousness, is corroborated in the same work, chapter vii., on Pratyahara (the restraint and regulation of the senses, Pranayama being that of the "vital winds" or breath). The Brahmana speaks in it "of the institution of the seven sacrificial Priests (Hotris). He says: "The nose and the eyes, and the tongue, and the skin and the ear as the fifth (or smell, sight, taste, touch and hearing), mind and understanding are the seven sacrificial priests separately stationed"; and which "dwelling in a minute space (still) do not perceive each other" on this sensuous plane, none of them except mind. For mind says: "The nose smells not without me, the eye does not take in colour, etc., etc. I am the eternal chief among all elements (i.e., senses). Without me, the senses never shine, like an empty dwelling, or like fires the flames of which are extinct. Without me, all beings, like fuel half dried and half moist, fail to apprehend qualities or objects even with the senses exerting themselves."* This, of course, with regard only to mind on the sensuous plane. Spiritual mind (the upper portion or aspect of the impersonal MANAS) takes no cognisance of the senses in physical man. How well the ancients were acquainted with the correlation of forces and all the recently discovered phenomena of mental and physical faculties and functions, with many more mysteries also -- may be found in reading chapters vii. and viii. of this (in philosophy and mystic learning) priceless work. See the quarrel of the senses about their respective superiority and their taking the Brahman, the lord of all creatures, for their arbiter. "You are all greatest and not greatest," or superior to objects, as A. Misra says, none being independent of the other. "You are all possessed of one another's qualities. All are greatest in their own spheres and all support one another. There is one unmoving (life-wind or breath, the 'Yoga inhalation,' so called, which is the breath of the One or Higher SELF). That is the (or my) own Self, accumulated in numerous (forms)." This Breath, Voice, Self or "Wind" (pneuma?) is the Synthesis of the Seven Senses, noumenally all minor deities and esoterically -- the septenary and the "Army of the VOICE."
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* This shows the modern metaphysicians, added to all past and present Haegels, Berkeleys, Schopenhauers, Hartmanns, Herbert Spencers, and even the modern Hylo-Idealists to boot, no better than the pale copyists of hoary antiquity.

(b) Next we see Cosmic matter scattering and forming itself into elements; grouped into the mystic four within the fifth element -- Ether, the lining of Akasa, the Anima Mundi or Mother of Kosmos. "Dots, Lines, Triangles, Cubes, Circles" and finally "Spheres" -- why or how? Because, says the Commentary, such is the first law of Nature, and because Nature geometrizes universally in all her manifestations. There is an inherent law -- not only in the primordial, but also in the manifested matter of our phenomenal plane -- by which Nature correlates her geometrical forms, and later, also, her compound elements; and in which there is no place for accident or chance. It is a fundamental law in Occultism, that there is no rest or cessation of motion in Nature.* That which seems rest is only the change of one form into another; the change of substance going hand in hand with that of form -- as we are taught in Occult physics, which thus seem to have anticipated the discovery of the "Conservation of matter" by a considerable time. Says the ancient Commentary** to Stanza IV.: -"The Mother is the fiery Fish of Life. She scatters her spawn and the Breath (Motion) heats and quickens it. The grains (of spawn) are soon attracted to each other and form the curds in the Ocean (of Space). The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn -- in fiery dots, triangles and cubes, which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form, a process which they effect only when not interfered with by the others. After which, law No. * * * comes into operation. Motion (the Breath) becomes the whirlwind and sets them into rotation."***
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htm (12 von 17) [06." DEVA-MATRI. the Adityas are. or the male Wisdom. The Worlds are all subject to Rulers or Regents -. beyond the clouds. Gods. and the twelve great gods of the Hindu Pantheon.the various other worlds contained in the last three." our sun. she approached the gods with seven. in their primitive most ancient meanings. with the Ancients in general. Chochmah and Binah. Page]] 100 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Aditi. the Decade which contains in itself all the Universe.The Secret Doctrine by H. or the manifestation thereof. Yet the Ancients knew of and worshipped seven great gods. beyond the sky. the seven planets. The exoteric version may be found in the oldest Sanskrit Scriptures. the Scintillae or Sparks. cosmically or astronomically. the Square within the Circle being the most potent of all the magical figures.** But esoterically and theologically. The seven sons called the Aditya are. translated by Mr. The triad forms within the circle the Tetraktis or Sacred Four. "the visible infinite.05. in this wise: "Eight Sons were born from the body of Aditi. the effect of the Cause. but show themselves only to the Arhats.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05. Angels with the Jews and Christians. "their dwellings" standing here for planets." says an old proverb. with the Cypher." referring to the Abstract Thought and concrete Voice." is the equivalent of "Mother-Space" coeval with "Darkness.
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Material Worlds". "The Boundless" or infinite Space. the last a female potency and at the same time the male Jehovah. The ancient Commentary gives an allegory and explains it: --
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. the endless expanse beyond the Earth. but cast away the eighth. In the Rig Veda. allegorically. Which was that "Mystery God" they set apart? Of course not Uranus. visible by the naked eye (!!). "The Seven allow the mortals to see their dwellings. therefore this triad answers in the latter to the highest triangle of Kether. and in fact knew of a seventh planet.Sun and Planets. Blavatsky. (b) This means that the "Boundless Circle" (Zero) becomes a figure or number. (c) The "One Rejected" is the Sun of our system." She is very properly called "The Mother of the Gods. and the Sun being excluded from their number shows plainly that the Hindus may have known. excluding the Sun and Earth. the Word or Logos in union with VOICE and Spirit* (the expression and source of Consciousness) standing for the nine figures and thus forming. the eight. only when one of
the nine figures precedes it. discovered only by Herschel in 1781. without calling it Uranus. Vol 1. -. P. as partaking of the nature of Chochmah. ** The Secret Doctrine teaches that the Sun is a central Star and not a planet. Adam Kadmon or Tetragrammaton is the Logos in the Kabala.theosociety. 1. bk 1. as it is from her Cosmic matrix that all the heavenly bodies of our system were born -. Thus she is described.Rishis and Pitris with the Hindus. Max Muller.

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"Eight houses were built by Mother.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05. which is a central Star relatively motionless. Sir."Occult Sciences having discovered through astronomical calculations that the number of the planets must be seven. Bal-ilu (Martanda) was not satisfied. (Since then) he (only) watches and threatens. they attributed it to the Sun. Do your worst. She exiled Bal-i-lu to the centre of her Kingdom. Surya is the prototype of all those bodies that evolved after him. every time they perceived an influence that pertained to none of the six planets known. He began (to work) as the huge elephants do. "the Eye of the World" (our
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planetary world). P.theosociety. They complained to the Mother.
[[Vol. * Planetary System. bk 1. He sought to devour them. turning slowly around himself. The meaning of the allegory is plain. But the smaller wept." adds the learned writer. and by one horse with seven heads. though his house was the largest. Page]] 101 FIRE. He fills himself with her breath and refuse. He breathed (drew in) into his stomach the vital airs of his brothers. p. . the ancients were led to introduce the Sun into the scale of the celestial harmonies.htm (13 von 17) [06. The larger four were far away. the former referring to his seven planets. The nomenclature of the days of the week is thus faulty. . and make him occupy the vacant place. Ragon. This "One Element" is called figuratively "FIRE. He pursues them." . because no distinction is made with reference to. .** From that day he feeds on the sweat of the Mother's body. In the Vedas he is called LokaChakshuh. turning only on its axis and regulating time and measure. they turning swiftly from him." Thus the "rejected Son" being our Sun. and he following from afar the direction in which his brothers move on the path that encircles their houses.05. Thus. four large and four small ones. Vol 1.2003 03:30:50]
. the "Sun-Sons" refer not only to our planets but to the heavenly bodies in general. evidently. 1. THE GREAT SYMBOL OF DEITY. you cannot reach us. Thus he is depicted as drawn by seven horses. on the margin of their kingdom. and which cannot be turned aside from its true functions. from whence he could not move." The Vedas (Aitareya-Brahmana of Haug also. if the ancient astrologers replaced Uranus by the Sun. she rejected him. Eight houses for her Eight Divine sons. for we have both the Dzyan Commentary and modern science to
http://www. "The SunDay ought to be Uranus-day (Urani dies. or scope allowed for. Therefore. they said. Himself only a reflection of the Central Spiritual Sun." (Narada in Anugita)." astronomy teaches us. Blavatsky. ** "The Sun rotates on his axis always in the same direction in which the planets revolve in their respective orbits. far. The error only seems important. the esoteric meaning. the latter to their one common origin from the One Cosmic Element. . Eight brilliant suns. and laughed.The Secret Doctrine by H. and he is one of the three chief deities. according to their age and merits. as shown above.* They were not robbed (affected). but was not so in practical results. i) teach "that the fire verily is all the deities. . Urandi).

the archaic teaching seems scientific enough. for instance. vitiated by the atmospheres of the planets and the already compound matter of the interplanetary stuff. and again that "the Sun may condense gaseous matter as it travels in Space and so heat may be produced" -. *** Buddhi -. threatening to engulf his weaker "brothers" before the law of attraction and repulsion was finally adjusted. 81.* Mr. It is homogeneous in its primitive form beyond the Solar Systems. who theorized that the systems "are gradually changing by atmospheric additions or subtractions. of which the ancients knew nothing. is totally different from any of the chemical or physical characteristics with which modern science is acquainted.*** (d) There is a whole poem on the pregenetic battles fought by the growing planets before the final formation of Kosmos. Having evolved from Cosmic Space.theosociety. that the (seven) great planets have evolved from the Sun's central mass. or the human Soul. p. Page]] 102 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. not their father. but our sun.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05.htm (14 von 17) [06. Vol 1.the Mother) or the "World-Stuff " which is both the fifth and the sixth COSMIC Principle.the Mind-Principle. The Occult Doctrine rejects the hypothesis born out of the Nebular Theory. its parent Sun. "the gods.2003 03:30:50]
. The eight Adityas.The Secret Doctrine by H. or by accretions and diminutions arising from nebular substances" . The first condensation of Cosmic matter of course took place about a central nucleus. drew into the depths of its mass all the Cosmic vitality he could. though the two differ in more than one particular. the Microcosm. on those portions of Ether (the "breath of the Universal Soul") of the existence and constitution of which science is as yet absolutely ignorant.05. . as the rotating mass contracted. Blavatsky. W." 1843.
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explain it. not of this our visible Sun. it is said) being tilted over. the Upadhi or basis of the Universal Soul. after which he began feeding on "The Mother's refuse and sweat".the divine Soul. at any rate. bigger brother therefore. we are taught. . and before the final formation of the primaries and the annulation of the planetary nebula. and is their elder. it is taught. the Architects. even in this age. the Sun. and "Address to the British Association. P. just as in man. thus showing the same traditions. 1. These planets are called the warriors. and are accepted by the
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Roman Church as the leaders of the heavenly Hosts. and differentiates entirely once it crosses the boundaries of our Earth's region. Expelling thence the previously condensed and thermally exhausted
http://www. Occult Science teaches." are all formed from the eternal substance (Cometary matter* -. A theory of this kind having been propounded by Sir William Grove (see "Correlation of the Physical Forces. the plane of the satellites of some (of Neptune and Uranus. in other words.

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but little. radiant. developed.are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born. Martin Duncan's "Address of the President of the Geological Society. C. attraction and repulsion -.theosociety.D. they say." What could affect Neptune. The doctrine of a common origin for all the heavenly bodies and planets. which he supposes to be in this way taken up by the Ether. was. cosmic. The "Breath" of all the "seven" is said to be Bhaskara (light-making). Newton. imaginary.2003 03:30:50]
." in Dr.*** Saturn and Jupiter. the name of the fourth planet mentioned in the allegory must remain to us. regulated and sustained by the never-resting Breaths -. bk 1. ** See "Comparative Geology. 1877.. The true Eastern Occultist will maintain that. Mattieu Williams' "The Fuel of the Sun. W. Page]] 103 THE STELLAR "SONS OF LIGHT. Neptune does not belong to it." during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state. as we see. This connection is mayavic.passing gradually into objectivity gaseous. his apparent connection with our sun and the influence of the latter upon Neptune notwithstanding.the three great factors of Motion -. would have killed such comparatively small "Houses" as Mercury. Centres of Forces at first. to be reborn after a "Night of Brahma. and again concentrated and redistributed by the Suns of the Universe." They are called allegorically "the Heavenly Snails.** This is about as close an approximation to the Occult teachings as Science ever imagined. *** When we speak of Neptune it is not as an Occultist but as a European." on account of their (to us) formless INTELLIGENCES inhabiting unseen their starry and planetary homes. Vol 1. and die. a mystery. XXV. 1. and also in Dr." London. because they (the planets) were all comets and suns in their origin. Herschel and Laplace. so far. The most attenuated gases can give no idea of its nature to the modern physicist. Kant. before Kepler. 56. LL. for Occultism explains it by "the dead breath" given back by Martanda and his feeding on the "sweat and refuse" of "Mother Space..the Dhyan Chohans.
[[Vol.htm (15 von 17) [06. 1882). whereas there are many yet undiscovered planets in our system.
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Ether. and. p. Leibnitz. so to speak.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05. William Siemens' "On the Conservation of Solar Energy" (Nature. it becomes compressed and gives up its heat. P. the invisible sparks of primordial atoms differentiate into molecules. and the initial motion. carrying them as the snails do along with themselves in their revolution.
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) Thus the ancient doctrine has begun to acquire rights of citizenship in the speculations of the scientific world. Blavatsky. Voice. these Divine Beings are connected with Karma. we make it come forth into the visible world.
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. scatters them throughout the Universe.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05. THE REJECTED SON IS ONE. and Spirit). THEN THE SECOND SEVEN. there exist the vestiges of all our acts. PRODUCED BY THE THREE (Word. until.or. WHO ARE THE LIPIKA. Page]] 104 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
"Scribes. upon which the "Builders" reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya. for they are the Recorders or Annalists who impress on the (to us) invisible tablets of the Astral Light. "the great picture-gallery of eternity" -.The Secret Doctrine by H." this divine and unseen canvas is the BOOK OF LIFE. Draper. the Law of Retribution. of man. ." means literally the
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------STANZA IV. 455. et seq. where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out. it is they who stand parallel to the Seven Angels of the Presence. but they are ready to make their appearance as soon as proper developers are resorted to.. "A shadow never falls upon a wall without leaving thereupon a permanent trace which might be made visible by resorting to proper processes. were not the Egyptian gods so
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*These are the four "Immortals" which are mentioned in Atharva Veda as the "Watchers" or Guardians of the four quarters of the sky (see ch. for we meet with the same records in the world of gross matter. and might stand paralleled. . The forty "Assessors" who stand in the region of Amenti as the accusers of the Soul before Osiris. . THE "SON-SUNS" ARE COUNTLESS. p. P. -. "The portraits of our friends or landscape-views may be hidden on the sensitive surface from the eye. is. . Vol 1. silhouettes of whatever we have done."* Mystically.theosociety. and even thought."** Drs. "writing. as called by Plato.Continued. belong to the same class of deities as the Lipika. in the phenomenal Universe. Jevons and Babbage believe that every thought. whom the Christians recognise in the Seven "Planetary Spirits" or the "Spirits of the Stars. displacing the particles of the brain and setting them in motion. and they think that "each particle of the existing matter must be a register of all that has happened.a faithful record of every act. of all that was. A spectre is concealed on a silver or a glassy surface. the "Divine Thought. lxxvi. . The Lipi-ka. 6. 1-4. from the word lipi. and our retirement can never be profaned. 1.htm (16 von 17) [06." says Dr. bk 1. .). II. As said in "Isis.

as observed by one of the modern adepts of Astrology. Minos. p.theosociety." -. "Now that photography has revealed to us the chemical influence of the Sidereal system.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-05. called Agra-Sandhani."*
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little understood in their esoteric meaning. Connected as the Lipika are with the destiny of every man and the birth of every child. the "Assessors" who read theirs from the heart of the defunct. For. it becomes easier to understand how our solar system can.they may also be said to exercise an influence on the Science of Horoscopy. The Hindu Chitra-Gupta who reads out the account of every Soul's life from his register. whose life is already traced in the Astral Light not fatalistically.virgin of any impression -. We must admit the truth of the latter whether we will or not. or Karma -are all so many copies of. at the birth of a child. and variants from the Lipika. Nevertheless. like the PAST. which becomes an open book before (whether) Yama. ---------------------
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in other worlds and the preceding Manvantaras. The question will surely be asked. THE PRIMORDIAL SEVEN. that the Unconscious evolved the Universe only "in the hope of attaining clear self-consciousness. as he did. in order to become a divine.
STANZA V. Each Entity must have won for itself the right of becoming divine. this does not apply merely to our terrestrial humanity. Let us see. as we have now.aye. -." This explains also the hidden Kabalistic meaning of the saying: "The Breath becomes a stone.
Brahma being constantly "moved by the desire to create. For the hosts of these Sons of Light and 'Mind-born Sons' of the first manifested Ray of the UNKNOWN ALL.NO GOD." of becoming. 1. a god.The Secret Doctrine by H.. MAN. Hegel.htm (1 von 25) [06..Vol. if we would not reject the existence of spiritual humanity within physical mankind. P. 1. the man. or are they merely imageries?" To this the answer is given as plainly: "After due allowance for the imagery of personified Powers. bk 1." Unless we want to believe the unphilosophical dogma of a specially created soul for every human birth -. Page]] 106 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. since "Adam" -. And when we say human. This will be explained in its place. Blavatsky. the stone. a spirit.theosociety. are the very root of spiritual man. the most difficult of all the Stanzas to explain. Its language is comprehensible only to him who is thoroughly versed in Eastern allegory and its purposely obscure phraseology. etc.2003 03:30:56]
. a man. THE FIRST SEVEN BREATHS OF THE DRAGON OF WISDOM. 1.' and 'Sons of Light' as Entities. the animal. the Rishis.we have to admit the occult teachings. The Doctrine teaches that. (a) This is. but to the mortals that inhabit any world.
http://www. to those Intelligences that have reached the appropriate equilibrium between matter and spirit.e.of whatever forms and shapes -. since the middle point of the Fourth Root Race of the Fourth Round was passed. PRODUCE IN THEIR TURN FROM THEIR HOLY CIRCUMGYRATING BREATHS THE FIERY WHIRLWIND (a). the plant. sec 5
The Secret Doctrine by H.a fresh supply of these pouring in daily. "Do the Occultists believe in all these 'Builders." The Mind-born Sons. fully conscious god. Page]] 107 NO MAN -. P. perhaps.05. even the highest -the Spiritual primeval INTELLIGENCES must pass through the human stage. an animal. were all men -. for this is also the secret meaning of the usual Puranic phrase about
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whose agency is a necessary factor in the scheme of Nature. He holds that the evolution of man was directed and furthered by superior Intelligences.theosociety.)
[[Vol. (See Nos. A.the expression itself shows it.). R.05.. or the manifested subject which becomes the symbol of the Power directing it). HE PASSES LIKE LIGHTNING THROUGH THE FIERY CLOUDS (cosmic mists) (b). Wallace. it is only a logical deduction to extend it still further. No hard and fast line can be drawn. the directing thought of the "Creative Forces. when discussing the inadequacy of "natural selection" as the sole factor in the development of physical man. as both.e. It is an atom and an angel. THE DZYU BECOMES FOHAT.the fiery whirlwind. for every atom in the Universe has the potentiality of self-consciousness in it. and for itself. this cosmic dust is something more.* RUNS CIRCULAR ERRANDS. like the Monads of Leibnitz. "Dzyu becomes Fohat" -. is therefore the most difficult to explain in all its details and bearings. AND
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This subject. THE SWIFT SON OF THE DIVINE SONS. Page]] 108 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
THE THOUGHT IS THE RIDER (i. A sentence or two in it vividly recalls to mind similar ones in the Kabala and the phraseology of the King Psalmist (civ. practically concedes the whole point here discussed. In this connection it should be noted that one of the luminaries of the modern Evolutionist School. But once the operation of these Intelligences is admitted in one place.The Secret Doctrine by H. he is under the influence of their guiding thought). WHOSE SONS ARE THE LIPIKA.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. TAKES THREE. Dzyu is the one real (magical) knowledge. the "Messenger of their will" -. THEY MAKE OF HIM THE MESSENGER OF THEIR WILL (a). HE LIFTS HIS VOICE. being so very mystical. ------STANZA V. or
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it is as well to say at once that. the Dhyani-Buddhas are seven.D. Eros: answering to the Kabalistic En-Soph (for Chaos is SPACE. than Eros is the later brilliant winged Cupid. bk 1. Dzyu is the expression of the collective Wisdom of the Dhyani-Buddhas. is called Amita(-Buddha). In this case. free from the debasing conditions of this material life" of every earthly mortal Buddha -. differing widely from the later mythology. of whom the human Buddhas are the manifestations in the world of form and matter. Page]] 109 THEOGONY OF THE CREATORS.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. becomes almost omnipotence when applied in the right direction. -.** As the synthesis of the seven Dhyani-Buddhas.05. after the decease of the Manushi (human) Buddha. self-born of divine essence. which.. the celestial name of Gautama Buddha. so Fohat is one thing in the yet unmanifested Universe and another in the phenomenal and Cosmic World. under the Will of the Creative Logos. or LOVE. so to speak.
correctly states. as Mr. Shekinah and the Ancient of Days. "the glorious counterparts in the mystic world. and was the Avatar of Amitabha. that which deals with illusions and false appearances only. or the Holy Ghost. As in the oldest Grecian Cosmogony. each of whom has his particular divine prototype.(who is credited by the Orientalists with having created the five Dhyani-Buddhas!). being one of the most. (c) Fohat. as in our exoteric modern sciences.a Dhyani-Bodhisattva -who. In the latter. He was born in the year 1355 A. has to carry out the work of the latter. sec 5
Occult Wisdom.htm (3 von 25) [06. Blavatsky.a candidate becomes virtually a Bodhisattva. Eros is the third person in the primeval trinity: Chaos. Its antithesis is Dzyu-mi. But in the unmanifested Universe. Gaea. So. Esoterically. 1. vital power. unites and brings together all forms. created such by the High Initiator. dealing with eternal truths and primal causes." and are all Anupadaka (parentless). in Amdo. Amitabha is the Dhyani-Buddha of Gautama Sakyamuni. They are the "Buddhas of Contemplation.* and two are to come in the sixth and seventh Root-races. ** The first and greatest Reformer who founded the "Yellow-Caps." Gyalugpas. who. They are. [[Chaino]].
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. Fohat is no more this. Fohat has naught to do with Kosmos yet.theosociety. since Kosmos is not born. giving them the first impulse which becomes in time law. rests on the fact that owing to the highest initiation performed by one overshadowed by the "Spirit of Buddha" . manifesting through him whenever this great Soul incarnates on earth as He did in Tzon-kha-pa. which. so Amitabha is the inner "God" of Gautama.

in obedience to the Ideation of the Universal Mind. The triple One differentiates into the many. give birth in their turn to Ether and Hemera.The Secret Doctrine by H. which is the Osiris of the Egyptians. Erebos and Nux are born out of Chaos. When the "Divine Son" breaks forth. Vol 1. and then Fohat is transformed into that force which brings together the elemental atoms and makes them aggregate and combine. emanates. P. the reflection of the Universal Mind. brings into existence all the various states of being in the manifested Solar System. Fohat.
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. is the Demiurgos or the creative Logos of the Western Kabalists. however. running along the seven principles of AKASA. but to reunite in a mystic supersensuous act. or the periodical. Every philosophy.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06." From the Unknown One.manifests itself as Avalokiteshwara (or manifested Iswara). separated from its Fountain-Source. brought into existence by these agencies. (See his four lectures on the "Bhagavadgita" in the Theosophist.
in early Greek mythology. Manvantaric Deity. the light of the superior and the light of the inferior or terrestrial regions." He is an abstract philosophical idea. and by differentiating it into various centres of Energy. under the action of Eros. Subba Row seems to identify him with.htm (4 von 25) [06. See in the Puranas Brahma's "Will" or desire to create. Page]] 110 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. which is Cosmic Ideation and the intellectual Force accompanying such ideation. the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians. [[pothos]]. the LOGOS. or Mahat. and in the Phoenician Cosmogony of Sanchoniathon the doctrine that Desire. he is simply that potential creative power in virtue of whose action the NOUMENON of all future phenomena divides. and emit the creative ray. is the principle of creation. the Logos of the Platonists. which. Darkness generates light.)
http://www. sets in motion the law of Cosmic Evolution. and the four-faced Brahma of the Hindu religion. the Infinite TOTALITY. and to call him. the manifested ONE. and. as declared above. We find an echo of this primeval teaching
[[Vol. the concealed Wisdom of Adi-Buddha -. bk 1. Such is the teaching of the trans-Himalayan Esotericism. The Solar System. and the Atman of the Vedantins. like everything else within these centres. Simultaneously with the evolution of the Universal Mind. then Fohat becomes the propelling force. Fohat is closely related to the "ONE LIFE. and this is the Universal Mind. Blavatsky. consists of Seven Principles. which. represented by these innumerable centres of spiritual Energy in the Kosmos.the One Supreme and eternal -. 1. the active Power which causes the ONE to become TWO and THREE -. it represents the Hosts of the higher creative Dhyan Chohans.05. In its totality. so to speak.

Fohat.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. on the unseen as on the manifested planes. yet it may be -. in the formation of things -. so long as European Science knows so little about its true nature." (Helmholtz. In his secondary aspect. also. is "a manifestation of the Solar Energy. as much as Ether is matter. is the teaching of the Occult Doctrine. On the earthly plane his influence is felt in the magnetic and active force generated by the strong desire of the magnetizer. He is. Page]] 111 THE PROTEAN SPIRIT-SUBSTANCE. was taken to task for asserting in one of his lectures that Electricity is matter. Energy simply.The Secret Doctrine by H.Electricity." and he is described as striding through the Seven regions of the Universe in three steps. the Vedic God having little in common with the Vishnu
http://www. (See the Addendum to this Book. but is looked upon by the Occultists as an Entity -. Such. and the messenger of Cosmic and human ideations: the active force in Universal Life. and a Force -. Olcott. P. though several removes from the latter. bk 1.htm (5 von 25) [06. Fohat is connected with Vishnu and Surya in the early character of the (first) God. therefore it is matter. it is present in the constructive power that carries out. the transcendental binding Unity of all Cosmic Energies. the action of which resembles -. Vol 1. or in the Divine Thought. Vishnu. but one of the numberless Entities that rule and guide our world according to the eternal Law of KARMA.on an immense scale -.theosociety. Fohat is not only the living Symbol and Container of that Force. Electricity is "immaterial" in the sense that its molecules are not subject to perception and experiment. the electric vital fluid. therefore it cannot be called matter. Fohat is the Solar Energy.from the planetary system down to the glow-worm and simple daisy -. is divided into definite elementary portions. with regard to the development and growth of that special thing. because he shapes the atoms from crude material. On the Cosmic. that Electricity was matter.2003 03:30:56]
. positive as well as negative. 1881). Col. But even supposing it were unscientific to speak of it in such terms. since it is as atomic.atomic.* and the preserving fourth
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* In 1882 the President of the Theosophical Society." on a lower scale. It seems ridiculous to argue that because a thing is imponderable to Science. 1. which behave like atoms of electricity. is the personified electric vital power.* In the sacred texts of the Rig Veda. years ago. nevertheless. We will go further than that. which is neither God nor Devil. Blavatsky.the forces he acts upon being cosmic. human and terrestrial. "to pervade. once Electricity is called in Science a source of Energy.that of a living Force created by WILL. and assert that Electricity is not only Substance but that it is an emanation from an Entity. for Vishnu is not a high god in the Rig Veda. said.05. a mathematician and one of the greatest authorities upon Electricity and its phenomena. "Force." may be a better name for it. not motion merely." "Energy. the animal Soul of Nature.and Occultism says it is -. so to say.the plan in the mind of nature. In India. yet matter it is. in those phenomena where the seemingly subjective acts on the seemingly objective and propels it to action." and Fohat is called the "Pervader" and the Manufacturer.
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Now to the query. or "Man. the Dhyani-Buddhas or the Elohim. also as the "three steps" of the dwarf (Vishnu's incarnation). Soul and Body (MAN)." the abstract garb of an ever present abstraction -." or the "Deity is one in many. or JahHova. of the Mazdeans. bk 1. can be seen from comparisons and parallelisms made by students of old religions. But how strangely all these numbers are connected with like numbers in other Cosmogonies and with their symbols.2003 03:30:56]
. Therefore the two are identical in this particular feature. and belongs neither to the Aryan 5th Race. or for any other "UNKNOWABLE") becomes "One" -. P. "By three Steps" from below. "one. Chaldeans."Boundless Space. the earliest Aryans. Stepping out of the Circle of Infinity. Chinese. on the metaphysical plane. and emblematic. Blavatsky. The "three and seven" strides refer to the Seven spheres inhabited by man. the Egyptians. nor any of the Seven divisions of the Fifth Root Race. Esoteric philosophy alone explains it clearly. It represents limitless Time in Eternity. Then came the change. "male female. and setting.they are explained by Aurnavabha as being the various positions of the sun. nor to any of its numerous Subraces.and in the astronomical sense. Vol 1. noon. and the Zohar laid it down very philosophically and comprehensively.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.the
http://www. Can Science give a complete explanation of this fact?
[[Vol. 1. and one is the copy of the other. Ain-Soph (the Kabalistic synonym for Parabrahm. very correctly -." the inner divine entity becomes. the EKA." thus unifying the multiplicity and taking the first step towards Monotheism.the Incognisable Deity." of the Rig Veda." from which Circle issues the radiant light -.
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* It is well known that sand. the Soul of the World. The Circle was with every nation the symbol of the Unknown -. and the sky." And from man. Notwithstanding the frequent objections made by would-be Orientalists.htm (6 von 25) [06. rising. of the esoteric Doctrine.* They are all symbols. sec 5
of later times. It is said and plainly demonstrated therein that in the beginning the Elohim (Elhim) were called Echod.theosociety. of the circle transformed into Spirit.then he (or it) is transformed by evolution into the One in many. The Kabalistic idea is identical with the Esotericism of the Archaic period. and as having been taken in the Earth. "Jehovah is Elohim. of course).the ECHOD. have been variously explained by commentators as meaning "fire. This esotericism is the common property of all. when placed on a metal plate in vibration assumes a series of regular curved figures of various descriptions.
The meaning is plain. his third Step being taken into generation of the flesh. and its body (or Earth). or again the Amshaspends. The Zeroana Akerne is also the "Boundless Circle of the Unknown Time. Page]] 113 THE CORRELATION OF THE GODS. lightning and the Sun" cosmically. of Spirit. though more philosophically -. once more the Elohim. as well as to the Seven regions of the Earth. It cannot be claimed by the Turanians. but really belongs to the Third and Fourth Root Races. for the Zeroana Akerne. the AHU -. so-called. whose descendants we find in the Seed of the Fifth.The Secret Doctrine by H. that no man comprehendeth. the atmosphere. the Seven Worlds or spheres of our planetary chain are distinctly referred to in the exoteric Hindu scriptures. "How is Jehovah Elohim?" the answer is. The "three strides of Vishnu" through the "seven regions of the Universe." a very simple idea in a pantheistic conception (in its philosophical sense. mutually and correlatively.

first line.. therefore. while the trans-Himalayan Chakra has inscribed within it | | (triangle. The invisible Deity is thus also the Dhyan Chohans. from which IT steps into Man. and form one and the same curve -.htm (7 von 25) [06. including. and the nine. but none applied it to more physiologically materialistic uses than the Hebrews. 3. doctors of divinity (Cassel. Sometimes it comes in this form -.the astronomical (pi) number. etc. 3. and 7 are prominent in speculative masonry. while the sun was the ONE Circle from which proceeded the Cosmic orbs." No better definition could thus be given of the natural symbol and the evident nature of Deity. P. 5. for instance) show the Zohar explaining and of the supporting the Christian trinity (!). is in every point of the Universe. the famous numerals 13514.753/2 = 376.5 and the ratio of 20612/6561 feet for cubit measure gives the Great Pyramid measures. The three strides relate metaphysically to the descent of Spirit into matter. Page]] 114 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. etc. 5. or cycle. Vol 1. the primitive seven.05. and "Pythagorean Triangle. "a curve of such a nature that as to any. of the Gebers. Blavatsky. the least possible part thereof. in other words. or Ormazd** -. the reader will understand why." The Seven was a Sacred Number with every nation." etc. the "First Born" and the Sun. of the Logos falling as a ray into the Spirit. and the Elohim. that of a Circle. Returning to the Commentary (4) of Stanza IV. then into the Soul.theosociety. It is the latter.
is identical with Kronos. (See the Masonic Cyclopedia.. 5. in the Archaic Occultism and Symbology. their synthetical unit." Oliver. and of which he was considered the leader. 1. and 7 steps to show a circular walk. Zero-ana.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. The three faces of 3. "the giants.and the latter
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* The numbers 3. the Kabeiri." "Titans.or that which we call the circle.the triangle being a symbol of Deity everywhere.5 and 7635/2 = 3817. however. the Kabalistic circle of the Elohim reveals. as shown in "Isis. all signifying "great men. and ten. or the hidden meaning of Dhyani-Buddhas. and 7. and some other variations). or the Rishis. etc. according to the definition of a mystic. sec 5
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. in his AEolian form.) As a matter of course.
[[Vol. is the Chakra or circle of Vishnu. the Geborim. five and seven are mystical numbers. on earth. in which it becomes LIFE. which having its circumference everywhere (the boundless) has. and finally into the human physical form of man. that had its origin from the Heathen. and the last and the first are as greatly honoured by Masons as by the Parsis -. letters of the word or by anagram 31415 -. For the circle is Sar. if the curve be protracted either way it will proceed and finally re-enter upon itself. With these it was pre-eminently the generative number and 9 the
http://www. its central point also everywhere. and was the Babylonian god whose circular horizon was the visible symbol of the invisible." "Heavenly Men. and a pentacle with a dot in the centre thus: ." A mason writes: -"There are the 3. cube second line. Three.

their Demons and Heroes. as the old Hebrews have done. a fish-hook or a dart. have historical and ethical meanings. 25. But surely the Pyramid of Cheops. or
http://www. by the Orientalists. the ayin. these fourteen upper and nether worlds have
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* We are told by a Kabalist. I know not thy numbers' (lxxi.05.. That these accounts are blinds is shown by their contradicting each other.. 15). as Josephus shows in his "Against Apion. and speculates and theorizes out of the depths of the respective consciousnesses of her historians.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. The Hindu Glyph shows by its insufficiency in the large admixture of adventitious sides the same borrowed plumage that the Greeks (the lying Greeks) had. their (alleged) ancestors. . it must be due to servile copying on the part of the Jews. if he would make a point of comparison.just as by parallelisms the Psalmist says. vol. Of the two letters -. This is found in the exoteric Hindu Scriptures..htm (8 von 25) [06. (See Isis Unveiled. or nearer the old original source than any of them.and even their language. terse and exact modes far and beyond measure surpass the toddling word-talk of the Hindus -. II. but who are the Hyksos shepherds? And who the Egyptians? History knows nothing of the question. exclusive of the nether worlds. Read esoterically -. 1. They are borrowed from the Egyptians. to their esoteric teaching. P. from whom Moses got his Wisdom." This is entirely erroneous. is not of a later date than the Mosaic books? Hence.one.they will all yield the same meaning. Our learned brother and correspondent judges apparently the Hindu religious systems by their Shastras and Puranas.The Secret Doctrine by H. not on that of the Egyptians. . whose measurements are all found repeated by Professor Piazzi Smythe in Solomon's alleged and mythical temple. from the Coptic. and the Aryans never made their religion rest solely on physiological symbols. Page]] 115 MANIFESTED SYMBOLS. and related almost entirely to purely metaphysical
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* This was the symbol of the "Holy of Holies.* Their Rishis and gods.as shown above -."the Tree of the Garden of
Eden. also seven in number. of the old Phoenician and from the Hyksos."* the "double hermaphrodite rod" of the fourth race. who in a work not yet published contrasts the Kabala and Zohar with Aryan Esotericism. Thus one account enumerates Seven worlds. and that Masonry has: which in the rough monosyllabic (and apparent) poverty of the Hebrew. if there is any such great identity as claimed. is a negative female letter. sec 5
male causative one. Aye.) "Khamism. which is disfigured out of all recognition.are not original. Whereas with the Hindus and Aryans generally. bk 1. p. short. Vol 1. symbolically an eye. probably the latter. Blavatsky. a different construction being found in almost every Purana and epic poem. comes from the same source. It is to their philosophical systems that one has to turn. . the other a male letter. forming as shown by the Kabalists the
or otz -. the significance was manifold." I. 'My mouth speaks with my tongue. and to have been the source (!?).
and astronomical truths." the 3 and the 4 of sexual separation.
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. No doubt the symbology of the Pentateuch and even of the New Testament. 430-438. if not parent. and in their modern translation moreover. that "The Hebrew clear.

becomes spheroidal and ends by being transformed into globes or spheres. "Who is there to ascertain the difference in that motion. Blavatsky." says Bunsen. Vol 1. sky. that during the Kalpas (or aeons) of life." He who is prepared for it will understand the hidden meaning. and contains some germ of the Semitic. Suffice for the present to show that they are purposely referred to as though they belonged to the chain. whereas in the Hebrew records we find only the most surprising ingenuity in inventing apotheoses for phallic worship and sexual theogony.not even one of the Dhyani-Chohans. "Another enumeration calls the Seven worlds -. (a) "Wheels.The Secret Doctrine by H.2003 03:30:56]
.theosociety. yet there were great seers and prophets in olden times who were enabled to perceive the mystery of Breath and Motion retrospectively.C. around which primordial Cosmic matter expands. to be that where animals destroyed in the general conflagration are born again. assumes an evergrowing
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*It may be asked. invisible worlds.000 years B. P. and. middle region. which. HE IS THEIR GUIDING SPIRIT AND LEADER. -. and he places the great events in Egypt 9. when the systems of worlds were at rest and plunged in their periodic sleep. and there can be no one -. or Jana Loka." as already explained.THE CENTRAL WHEEL (a). 3. place of birth. "is from Western Asia. These will be noticed elsewhere.
nothing to do with the classification of the septenary chain and belong to the purely aethereal.htm (9 von 25) [06.) Some real esoteric teaching is given in the "Symbolism. as also the writer has not failed to ask. are the centres of force. since all nature is reduced to its primal essence. heaven. bk 1." (see Hindu Classical Dictionary.earth.to see it?" The answer to this is: "Everything in Nature has to be judged by analogy. The fact is that in archaic Esotericism and Aryan thought we find a grand philosophy. It is one of the fundamental dogmas of Esoteric Cosmogony. passing through all the six stages of consolidation. ------STANZA V. and stating the fifth. 1. MOTION.05. WHEN HE COMMENCES WORK. Though the highest Deities (Archangels or Dhyani-Buddhas) are unable to penetrate the mysteries too far beyond our planetary system and the visible Kosmos. and abode of truth. HE SEPARATES THE SPARKS OF THE LOWER KINGDOM (mineral atoms) THAT FLOAT AND THRILL WITH JOY IN THEIR RADIANT DWELLINGS (gaseous clouds). who are all in Nirvana -. Page]] 116 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
[[Vol. HE PLACES THEM IN THE SIX DIRECTIONS OF SPACE AND ONE IN THE MIDDLE -. placing the 'Sons of Brahma' in the sixth division. thus bearing witness to the primitive cognate unity of the Aryan and Semitic races"."
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. during the periods of Rest "pulsates and thrills through every slumbering atom"* (Commentary on Dzyan). AND FORMS THEREWITH THE GERMS OF WHEELS. mansion of the blest.Continued. sec 5
old Coptic.

000 before it was taken up by Galileo.] It is said also that Archimedes. by Pythagoras.. Some were led to it by the natural progress in physical science and by independent observation. they are represented by the Ophanim. sec 5
[[Vol. others -. Vol 1. Descartes.") By the "Six directions of Space" is here meant the "Double Triangle. The sphericity of the earth was distinctly taught by Aristotle." They are also called Rotae -.htm (10 von 25) [06. "De Anima.
[[Vol.D. inculcated the Heliocentric theory. and finally. LL.* Hicetas. from the first awakening of Kosmos to a new "Day. Thomson. XIV. P. and all his pupils.05. developed in the usual way by a course of study. -.their great learning notwithstanding. Ecphantus. -.The Secret Doctrine by H.C. bk 1. by Alex.C. and Democritus of Abdera -. taught the rotation of the earth. by Seleucus of Seleucia on the Tigris. These views seem to have been lost from knowledge for more than a thousand years. with slight modifications. Swedenborg. cap. Blavatsky.. The Heliocentric theory was taught about 150 B. The same idea was defended by Pliny (Nat.[It was taught 500 B. Page]] 117 THE ANTIQUITY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES.when the meaning refers to the animating principle of the stars and planets. Seleucus. is one of the oldest conceptions of Greek philosophy. for in the Kabala. by Sir W.* (See "A Mystery about Buddha. 113. B. Page]] 118 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Pythagoras. lib.such as Copernicus.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.taught that this gyratory movement of the atoms and spheres existed from eternity. .the moving wheels of the celestial orbs participating in the world's creation -. is a question that is treated separately.).) This law of vortical movement in primordial matter. and Aryabhata of India. the Angels of the Spheres and stars." (Comparative Geology. . II. The immobility of the Sun and the orbital rotation of the earth were shown by Aristarchus of Samos as early as 281 B..C. Swedenborg. to be suppositions accordant with facts of observation. or nearly 2.the pupil of the Magi -. The "Deity becomes a WHIRLWIND.. (See his "Vortical Atoms..
tendency. in a work entitled Psammites.H." the junction and blending
http://www. . is an echo of the archaic doctrine. and Archimedes calculated its revolution as scientifically as the astronomers do now. The Greeks had it from the Egyptians. and maintained by him 500 years B. 65)." p." to circular movement. a pupil of Plato. Leucippus.C. and by Heraclides. of which they are the informing Souls. 1. and a few more -.C. 551." p. "Pre-Kantian Speculation. It was also taught by his pupil Ecphantus. Winchell.") All such knowledge.). whose first historical Sages were nearly all Initiates of the Mysteries. (See Kabala Denudata. who had been the pupils of Brahmins of the esoteric school. Aristarchus. How men of the last few centuries have come to the same ideas and conclusions that were taught as axiomatic truths in the secrecy of the Adyta dozens of
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*"The doctrine of the rotation of the earth about an axis is taught by the Pythagorean Hicetas. and the latter from the Chaldeans.theosociety.
millenniums ago. 1. an attempt to explain which is now being made. who appealed for proof to the figure of the Earth's shadow on the moon in eclipses (Aristotle.2003 03:30:56]
. II. Hist. owed their knowledge far more to intuitive than to acquired ideas. probably as early as 500 B. Heraclides. De Coelo. if justice be only done to it. Part IV. while the theory of the Elemental Vortices was known to Anaxagoras. P.

the Motion toward which the connatus tends. THE FIRST DIVINE WORLD IS READY.
of Thought) REFLECTS ITSELF IN CHHAYALOKA (the shadowy world of primal form. 1. -. the Divine Soul) though a mere breath. Page]] 119 THE EVOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPLES. In other words. is circular.The Secret Doctrine by H. . surfaces and solids. sec 5
together of pure Spirit and Matter. AN ARMY OF THE SONS OF LIGHT STANDS AT EACH ANGLE (and) THE LIPIKA -. THEY (the Lipika) SAY. is still something material when compared with divine "Spirit" (Atma) of which it is the carrier or vehicle.. of which the Triangles are a Symbol. Winchell. THE SECOND (world). (a) This tracing of "Spiral lines" refers to the evolution of man's as well as Nature's principles. and Succession. or Time. Space. . THEN THE "DIVINE ARUPA" (the formless Universe
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* That Swedenborg. since the circle is the most perfect of all figures . we find the following resume: -. in his capacity of DIVINE LOVE (Eros). this Essence is not actual Motion.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. but being without parts. or the intellectual) THE FIRST GARMENT OF (the) ANUPADAKA (c)." (Quoted from Principia Rerum Naturalia."The first Cause is the Infinite or Unlimited.THE CROWN (a). into union with the Soul. . . Fohat. who could not possibly have known anything of the esoteric ideas of Buddhism. FOHAT TRACES SPIRAL LINES TO UNITE THE SIX TO THE SEVENTH -. quoted by Prof. is shown by his essay on the Vortical Theory. must be the perpetually circular.05. Figure. supra. that is to say. . In Clissold's translation of it. P. in our conceptions. "THIS IS GOOD" (b). and a surface a solid. As in Geometry a point generates a line. THE FIRST (is now). The most perfect figure of a Motion . the Essence of which is Motion. as it is Solomon's seal. as does everything else in nature. to Vortical Motion in the phenomenal or manifested World). This gives existence to the First Finite or Limited. "From this first proceed Extension.htm (11 von 25) [06.2003 03:30:56]
. and in Nature the first link between the ever unconditioned and the manifested. bk 1. the two constituting in Man the MONAD. of the Arupa and the Rupa. (See first Stanza. and the Sri-Antara of the Brahmins.) 4." but a change from eternal vibration in the unmanifested. The Sixth principle in Man (Buddhi. This double Triangle is a sign of Vishnu. ------STANZA V. but only a connatus to it." (In our Doctrine it is not a "connatus. the Universe is contained in ovo in the first natural point . "The first is
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[[Vol. came independently near the Occult teaching in his general conceptions. so here the connatus of a point tends towards lines.) "That which produces a limit is analogous to motion. on "The origin of the Human Races"). Vol 1.) This is Occultism pure and simple.(Continued. the electric Power of affinity and sympathy.IN THE MIDDLE WHEEL. a line a surface. . an evolution which takes place gradually (as will be seen in Book II." (The Logos in His manifestation and the Universe.) The limit produced is a point. is shown allegorically as trying to bring the pure Spirit. it must proceed from the centre to the periphery and from the periphery to the centre. the Ray inseparable from the ONE absolute. Blavatsky.theosociety. .

That light which burns inside thee. oh Gurudeva. "Secondless. or the irradiating Spirit of every creature of the human family." Truly so. not everlasting. In the Catechism. Here again. the untranslateable term SAT (Be-ness) is likely to lead into an erroneous conception.htm (12 von 25) [06. dost thou feel it different in anywise from the light that shines in thy Brother-men?" "It is in no way different.The Secret Doctrine by H. or SAT. hence erroneous conceptions and teachings. and relate. in truth. nor. to the numerical system of the Universe. The numbers with which these celestial Beings are connected are extremely difficult to explain. The "First is the Second." "Thou sayest well.the Atma. bk 1. I see countless undetached sparks shining in it. symbolically as well as cosmogonically.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. or countless lights above thee. then: -(c) The "Divine World" -. burning in the dark midnight sky?" "I sense one Flame. sec 5
now the second" (world) -. Herein lies the nodus in the study of symbology." because the "First" cannot really be numbered or regarded as the First. as that is the realm of noumena in its primary manifestation: the threshold to the World of Truth. First. the beacon of hope on whose Seven Rays hang the Seven Worlds of Being. as each number refers to several groups of distinct ideas.the Buddhis. 'Thy Soul and My Soul. They are the "Mystic Watchers" of the Christian Kabalists and Alchemists. This "World of Truth" can be described only in the words of the Commentary as "A bright star dropped from the heart of Eternity. the "Sum Total. the Master is made to ask the pupil: -"Lift thy head. 1. through which the direct energy that radiates from the ONE REALITY -.of the Lipikas -. or formless divine Souls. with which.the countless Lights lit at the primeval Light -. since those are the Seven Lights whose reflections are the human immortal Monads -. even sempiternal. of the last Arupa (formless) world. dost thou see one. as a direct result.theosociety. since that which is manifested cannot be SAT.05. though the prisoner is held in bondage by Karma." in the mysterious language of the old Stanza. and though its outer garments delude the ignorant into saying.from Star
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. P. oh Lanoo.
coexistent with the One Life. this septenary Light. according to the particular group of "Angels" which it is intended to represent.like the rest.has reference to the same.the Nameless Deity -reaches us." but as a manifestation it is still a Maya -. Page]] 120 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. unable to untie by disentangling it. (b) The "Army" at each angle is the Host of angelic Beings (Dhyan-Chohans) appointed to guide and watch over each respective region from the beginning to the end of Manvantara. but is something phenomenal. It is coeval and
[[Vol. Blavatsky. Vol 1. so many scholars have preferred dealing as Alexander dealt with the Gordian knot.

1. Vol 1. the Parsee. that of the Sun and of Fire. and a correlation of physical and chemical forces in general. candles.htm (13 von 25) [06. Fire is the one that has ever eluded definite analysis." The Rosicrucians. among all the mystics and Kabalists. It is Life and Death.05. and whether applied to the spiritual. It is divine 'SUBSTANCE.' " Thus. from the highest Dhyan Chohan to the smallest infusoria.* There is a deep philosophy underlying the earliest worship in the world. intellectual. sec 5
to mineral Atom. being supposed to be spiritual. but even the wandering savage tribes of America. of the ONE FLAME." show more science in their creeds and truth in their superstitions. "The Deity is boundless and infinite expansion. We say that water is. Of all the Elements known to physical science. endowing each with a Greek or Latin name. bk 1. which proclaim themselves "born of fire. as remarked. That water should dry up is.): "Very familiar facts seem to stand in no need of explanation themselves and to be the means of explaining whatever can be assimilated to them. Thus." and speaks of the Pentecostal "Tongues of Fire" and of the "burning bush" of Moses. P. or the punishment of the impenitent in another state" -. a thing wholly intelligible. were those who defined Fire in the right and most correct way. because they are familiar. Professor Bain says (Logic. not only the FIREWORSHIPPER. speaking of the illusion of regarding phenomena as simple." says an Occult axiom. and you will be able to light at its flame the lamps. yet few people think so" (p. keep it only supplied with oil. But what is FIRE? It is the effect of combustion. 125). Procure a sixpenny lamp. or physical worlds -. which explains fire as "the instrument of punishment. The Christian who says: "God is a living Fire.
Air is a mixture containing the gases Oxygen and Nitrogen. but.this is the one fundamental law in Occult Science."
[[Vol. Also see "Brihad Upanishad".org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. What says the esoteric teaching with regard to fire? "Fire." it says.
http://www. alas! the presence of fire would seem to be a convincing proof of its material nature. chemically.the "state. It is confidently asserted that
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* In the Rig Veda we find the names Brahmanaspati and Brihaspati alternating and equivalent to each other. we are gravely answered. whereas to the man acquainted with physical science the liquid state is anomalous and inexplicable. in the fullest acceptation of the term. Part II. the name of Brahma. and a satisfactory explanation of rarer phenomena.The Secret Doctrine by H. in Heaven as on Earth. Brihaspati is a deity called "the Father of the gods.theosociety. It is heat and light and motion. Page]] 121 THE MYSTERY OF THE FIRE. the boiling and evaporation of a liquid is supposed to be a very simple phenomenon requiring no explanation. And this scientific definition is philosophically supplemented by the theological one in Webster's Dictionary. Yet. We view the Universe and the Earth as matter composed of definite chemical molecules. the origin and the end of every material thing." by the bye. to the uninstructed mind. is as much a fireworshipper as any other "heathen. We speak of the primitive ten Earths. "is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection. a compound of Oxygen and Hydrogen.2003 03:30:57]
. The lighting of a fire by a flame is a GREAT SCIENTIFIC DIFFICULTY. and hence. than all the speculations of modern physics and learning. Blavatsky.

htm (14 von 25) [06. Page]] 122 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. If the Deity. divided into two parts -.theosociety.Continued. etc. the triad which disappears with the death of the person. Blavatsky.three rays of the Essence and four aspects. 1. . the sixth and the seventh (counting downwards) being the astral and the terrestrial.one for the inner Lanoos. is eternal and an infinite substance ("the Lord thy God is a consuming fire") and never consumed. (b) "Four winged wheels at each corner .* Those who have studied Mr.The Secret Doctrine by H.). Sinnett's "Esoteric Buddhism" can easily grasp the nomenclature. of seven principles -. . Soul.. Fohat taking "five strides" refers here to the five upper planes of Consciousness and Being. . or the two lower planes. professedly admitted by Science to have their respective evil and beneficent influences upon the health of Mankind and every living thing. in the esoteric calculation. the first teaching a septenary.
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[[Vol. . There are two esoteric schools -. the other for the outer or semi-lay chelas beyond the Himalayas. From a Cosmic point of view. Page]] 123 THE SECRET OF THE ELEMENTS. in the exoteric division. such as the four kinds of winds. 1. -. . There is occult philosophy in that
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and fires of the whole globe without diminishing that flame. and the Kama-rupa which disintegrates in Kama-loka. and Body). and the "Double" of the body. (a) The "strides. as the latter needs physical and material agents to carry out her decrees. These BEINGS are also connected with Karma.
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" and "Spirits" when enumerated by themselves. Page]] 124 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. each such species having indeed its particular angel to watch it. iv. or "Rectores tenebrarum harum. For the Kabalist and Occultist there is but one. "Angelic Virtues. to the invisible "Messengers" from North and West. it is not individuals but entire species of things that must be understood. sec 5
Roman Catholic doctrine which traces the various public calamities. but the "gods" that ruled these respectively. no more than the Christians did.re the
http://www. such as epidemics of disease. and neither of them makes any difference between "the Rectors of Light" and the Cosmocratores. Augustine has said that every visible thing in this world had an angelic virtue as an overseer near it. Vol 1. with or without "God's" permission or order. sounds like an undeniable prophecy for themselves. For us these angels are spirits separated from the objects . Thought is matter. when applied to the Jewish nation.
Angels and the Devils.: "Though St. And this accounts also for St. . do they adore and worship the Elements and the cardinal (imaginary) points.those who produced these causes. while Jeremiah. The two main theories of science -.) declaring that it is precisely for that reason that "we curse the NorthWind. . and "every particle of the existing matter must be a register of all that has happened. Thus. after St.The Secret Doctrine by H. VII. which powers are magnetically and irresistibly attracted to -. or simply Thinkers who brood mischief. Jevons and Babbage tell the profane.* we are taught by modern Science.theosociety. whether such persons are practically the evil-doers. no doubt. in his Theol." the latter look suspiciously like "Gods.was universal and is now that of Christians. whereas for the philosophers (pagan) they were gods. Augustine. and wars.* who call them." Belief in the "Four Maharajahs" -. Aristotle explained that the term [[stoicheia]] was understood only as meaning the incorporeal principles placed at each of the four great divisions of our Cosmical world to supervise them. and these awaken the corresponding powers in the sidereal world. He is at one in this with all the philosophers .htm (15 von 25) [06. But where is the difference between the Pagans and the Christians in this cause? Following Plato. Modern Science is drawn more every day into the maelstrom of Occultism.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.which proposition. but man himself -.2003 03:30:57]
.his deeds or Karma. We produce CAUSES. It is not the "Rector" or "Maharajah" who punishes or rewards. P.the Regents of the Four cardinal points -. and so on. after which we turn to the East." Considering the Ritual established by the Roman Catholic Church for "Spirits of the Stars. 1. "The glory of God comes from the way of the East" says Ezekiel. and the Psalmist assure their readers that all the evil under the Sun comes from the North and the West -. . For the Church there are two kinds of Sidereal beings.05." as in their "Principles of Science" Messrs. still very sensibly. and "Devils" when named by Pagans. I." whom the Roman Church imagines and discovers in a "Rector of Light" as soon as he is called by another name than the one she addresses him by. Cir. unconsciously. and that during the ceremony of baptism we begin by turning towards the West (Sidereal). bk 1. Blavatsky. the
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. . . as Clemens would have it. bk 1. It is through the four high Rulers over the four points and Elements that our five senses may become cognisant of the hidden truths of Nature. distinct from the physical brain through which it functions. Mental states and bodily states are utterly contrasted as such. . Cherubim and all.the four cardinal points signifying that which the four sides of the pyramids." a statement of almost unequalled absurdity.htm (16 von 25) [06.05. which one of its advocates. obelisks. But that does not affect the position that every thought.) The Tabernacle and the square courtyard.The Secret Doctrine by H. who assures us that "Thought is the movement of matter. West. Page]] 125 THE REAL MEANING OF THE TABERNACLE. . purple.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.. 90." pp. . and scarlet" and "five pillars of shittim wood for the hanging .. of the Tabernacle . (See "The Occult World. South. The whole was an allegorical symbol. that of the Jews was purely materialistic. while the four colours of the curtain represented the four cardinal points and the four terrestrial elements. Josephus takes care to explain the whole thing. were precisely the same as those in the Egyptian temples. and East .* While the Egyptian emblem was spiritual. The square form of the Tabernacle meant just the same thing as it still means. Vol 1. ably terms "guarded [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. with Cherubims of cunning work. . These two cover the whole ground of negative psychology with the exception of the quasi-occult views of the pantheistic German schools. the curtain was drawn over five pillars (the Pentacle) symbolising our five senses and five Root-races esoterically. the theory which regards mental phenomena as the product of molecular change in the brain. indeed. and.are Monism and Materialism. Blavatsky. four brazen rings in the four corners thereof . sec 5
relations between Mind and Matter -. . 1. an immense curtain separated the tabernacle from the place for the congregation. honoured only the blind Elements and the imaginary "Points.) ** The views of our present-day scientific thinkers as to the relations between mind and matter may be reduced to two hypotheses. and other such square erections mean.**
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In the Egyptian temples. . P. xxvii. In both. . in the exoteric worship of the Chinese and Tibetans -.) MONISM. He declares that the Tabernacle pillars
http://www. as the outcome of a transformation of motion into feeling (!). North. 89. if it had not the same cosmical significance? "Thou shalt make an hanging . boards of fine wood for the four sides. The Jews had the same. but this view is now happily regarded as absurd by most of the men of science themselves. and not at all. in addition to its physical accompaniment (brain-change). They are: -(1. or the Single Substance Doctrine." (Exodus. that it is the elements per se that furnished the Pagans with divine Knowledge or the knowledge of God. ch.theosociety. i. Professor Bain. These show that both views equally exclude the possibility of an independent Soul. xxvi.) MATERIALISM. is the more subtle form of negative psychology." For what was the meaning of the square tabernacle raised by Moses in the wilderness.e. exhibits an objective -. The cruder school once went so far as to identify mind with a "peculiar mode of motion" (!!). according to Clemens Alexandrinus. (2. .aspect on the astral plane.

the venerable haunt of gods and heavenly choristers . P." etc." Their mission and character being explained. as in all the sacred square buildings of antiquity that have survived to this day." They are called the Avengers. "Cherubim. Joseph Edkins. * Thus the sentence. bk 1. "Natura Elementorum obtinet revelationem Dei. while positing thought and mental phenomena generally as radically contrasted with matter. 1. is applicable to both or neither. . VIII.theosociety. because guarded by Serpents. and Plutarch De Iside. i.The Secret Doctrine by H. All these Gandharvas. Thought as thought.
[[Vol. called by the translators of the Bible.. and examine the outward shape of these "Great Kings. they are "the Devas who preside each over one of the four continents into which the Hindus divide the world. ch. XV.
as those raised at Tyre to the four Elements. and the four primitive elements. and by the Occultists.. IV. the four sides of the pyramids. are the allegorical descriptions of the "four Maharajahs. whereas the Lipika are concerned with Humanity's hereafter.. Blavatsky. The idea may be traced in the Zoroastrian caves. . in the rock-cut temples of India. which were placed on pedestals whose four angles faced the four cardinal points: adding that "the angles of the pedestals had equally the four figures of the Zodiac" on them. Academie des Inscriptions. . not to be reached by sinful men .05. sec 5
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] Materialism. vol II. he has but to compare the Vision of Ezekiel (chap.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. they say.. R. 228. They are the protectors of mankind and also the Agents of Karma on Earth. . ." "Seraphim. etc. 6). counting among its upholders such men as Lewis. "the winged Globes. let us see what the
http://www. is utterly contrasted with material phenomena. under the shape of square obelisks. in the religion of every country.) with what is known of Chinese Buddhism (even in its exoteric teachings). . and the "Winged Wheels.. At the same time they are the four living creatures "who have the likeness of a man" of Ezekiel's visions." The Seraphim are the fiery Serpents of Heaven which we find in a passage describing Mount Meru as: "the exalted mass of glory. Page]] 126 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. para. the four celestial beings are precisely this. etc. If the student would know more of them. regards both as equal to the two sides. Spencer. of one and the same substance in some of its conditions. p." and in the Hindu Pantheon by a number of different names. and others.2003 03:30:57]
.)."* Each leads an army of spiritual beings to protect mankind and Buddhism. Of these elements and their points the four Maharajahs were the regents and the directors." (In Clemens's Stromata. the "Sweet Songsters." This doctrine. With the exception of favouritism towards Buddhism. Consult the Zends. Vol.htm (17 von 25) [06. This is shown definitely by Layard. xxii. as compared by Layard." In the opinion of the Rev. 1854. Ferrier. Vol 1. or aspects. which represented the same orientation (Antiquities I. but it must be also regarded as only "the subjective side of nervous motion" whatever our learned men may mean by this. and Nagas.. which commands a very wide assent." the "Fiery Wheels. who finds the four cardinal points. Kinnaras." the Asuras.

bk 1. the face of a man. From Meru. (Compare "Chinese Buddhism. a cloud and fire infolding it . for the support of the living creature was in the wheel . Page]] 128 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. to Eden. "Now as I beheld the living creatures behold one wheel upon the Earth with his four faces . . Page]] 127 THE DRAGONS OF SECRET WISDOM. (Ezekiel." suggested to the venerable Interpreters the idea of punishment connected with forbidden Science or divine Knowledge -. he may be forgiven."The word signifies in Hebrew. 1.
Christian Bible-interpreters say of the Cherubim: -. Lion -. . sec 5
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http://www. and the face of a lion. even in such a large work as this. . . .theosociety. ch. the abode of gods. . exoterically as esoterically. . .one that generally leads to another "Fall. 24.. the third out of the seven of which was the Dragon." in man's estimation. . It is impossible. as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel . a whirlwind. . And every one had four faces and four wings .) Very well. the face of an ox. . P. The four keep company with the four Evangelists.05. from Genesis iii.The Secret Doctrine by H. and behold. Yet the allegory is suggestive.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.Raphael. the separation is still smaller. and their four cosmic Devas are eight."*) .Uriel." (Interpreted by Cruden in his Concordance. 1.2003 03:30:57]
. . as it would demand an extra volume." p. . But as the good old Cruden knew nought of Karma. and from the Hindu Serpents to the Ophite Cherubim. they had the likeness of a man. therefore of the primeval Rishi-Prajapati: also of the Seven great Gods of Egypt." that of the gods. or "God. " ("Man" was here substituted for "Dragon. i. But Ezekiel plainly describes the four Cosmic Angels: "I looked. with
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[[Vol. . Vol 1. and were therefore used for the punishment of men who affected divine Knowledge.Gabriel. these angels are so called from their exquisite Knowledge. their appearance was like coals of fire .
[[Vol. also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures . to enter into a minute examination of even the three principal groups. The "Builders" are the representatives of the first "Mind-Born" Entities. for both watched the entrance to the realm of Secret Knowledge." etc.

THE SECOND ONE. THE LIPIKA CIRCUMSCRIBE THE TRIANGLE.
STANZA V. THE CUBE. having no names for East. 6. "Supporters or guardians of the World" (in our visible Kosmos). and Kuvera (North) are the chief. which cannot be given here. No.the four cardinal and the four intermediate points -. bk 1. is something which the writer is unprepared to say. Hence the word Lipika. and of the Planets especially. In this work the Douay Roman Catholic version is generally followed. Blavatsky. Page]] 129 THE LIPIKA. save the Kabalists.the Macrocosmic prototype of the microcosm. and one may easily understand what reliance can be placed on the English version of the Bible. THE FIRST ONE (the vertical line or the figure 1. West.. right and left. though all of them have an occult significance. IT IS THE RING CALLED "PASS NOT. whereas the Builders are only our own planetary deities. and of these two died before the Psalms were translated" (Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia). etc. by which a Scripture or a Record was also meant. and North. Yama (South). and very often confounded the terms exoterically. ** The Symbol for Sacred and Secret Knowledge was universally in antiquity. Whether the Adepts (even the highest) know this angelic order in the completeness of its triple degrees. and all rule various departments in Nature. Vol 1.Continued.2003 03:30:57]
. expressed the idea by words signifying before.* They build or rather rebuild every "System" after the "Night. behind. or only the lower one connected with the records of our world.and are called Loka-Palas. AND THE PENTACLE WITHIN THE EGG (circle) (a). 1.05. They rule the destinies of men who are all born under one or other of their constellations. of England's Bible "only three understood Hebrew.The Secret Doctrine by H. the second and third groups pertaining to other systems have the same functions. and she would incline rather to the latter supposition. P. and the third. South. The former belong to the most occult portion of Cosmogenesis.**
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Ormazd at their head: or the "Seven Spirits of the Face": the Seven Sephiroth separated from the first Triad. The Lipika (a description of whom is given in the Commentary on Stanza IV. etc. Of its highest grade one thing only is taught: the Lipika are connected with Karma -. thus making the blinds in the Bible more confused and difficult to interpret. a Tree. their elephants and their spouses pertaining of course to fancy and afterthought. 6) are the Spirits of the Universe. the [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. Add to this the fact that out of the forty-seven translators of King James I. -.being its direct Recorders.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06.).htm (19 von 25) [06. In the Hindu exoteric Pantheon they are the guardian deities who preside over the eight points of the compass -." FOR THOSE WHO DESCEND AND ASCEND (as
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the incarnating Monads. . of the principal Creators or Architects of this visible universe. the Homogeneous becomes the Heterogeneous.as the upper Sephirothal Triad emanates the lower seven Sephiroth . etc. Hence the allegory. the Noumenon and Parent-Source of the former. bk 1. so to speak. In Hebrew Occultism their name is both Achath. unless they return into their primal Element.** It emanates from itself -. (a) The esoteric meaning of the first sentence of the Sloka is. THE "WHEELS" WATCH THE RING. identical with the plural word Chiim. the "golden" apple Tree of the Hesperides. and call it Jehovah. novenaries." and Achod. as the term Elohim is a plural noun. sec 5
also for those) WHO. Blavatsky. the "Protyle" differentiates into the Elements. THUS WERE FORMED THE ARUPA AND THE RUPA (the Formless World and the World of Forms).
quite arbitrary and against all reason and logic. feminine. each having its distinct task in the ruling of the visible Kosmos during its existence." This world is the symbol (objective) of the ONE divided into the many." symbols of wisdom. and immutable. that those who have been called Lipikas. can never cross beyond the Laya. and so on.theosociety. on her marriage with him. From the group of Four and Seven emanates the "mind-born" group of Ten. Juno giving to Jupiter. and this One is the collective aggregate.2003 03:30:57]
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] "writers" or scribes. a Tree with golden fruit is another form of Eve offering Adam the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Vol 1. FROM ONE LIGHT SEVEN LIGHTS. or zero-point.
[[Vol. The Stanza proceeds with a minute classification of the Orders of Angelic Hierarchy. make an impassible barrier between the personal EGO and the impersonal SELF.the One on the unreachable plane of Absoluteness and Infinity. of Twenty-one. DURING THE KALPA. on the planes of Illusion. on which no speculation is possible. Hence the allegory. of Twelve. The former can neither emanate nor be divided. Those who "descend and ascend" -. 1. of Adi (the "First") or of Eka (the "One").the seven Rays or Dhyan Chohans. in other words. and the Second "One" on the plane of Emanations. but masculine. in the Universe of Illusion).htm (20 von 25) [06. the Sephiroth-Elohim. as it is eternal.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. being. ARE PROGRESSING TOWARD THE GREAT DAY "BE WITH US" (b). or totality. "One" again. the reflection of the first One (for it is the Logos. duodecimals. until the mind is lost in this endless enumeration of celestial hosts and Beings. properly speaking. But these. the Recorders of the Karmic ledger. They circumscribe the manifested world of matter within the RING "Pass-Not. two "ONES" -. who guard the Trees of Knowledge. FROM EACH OF THE SEVEN SEVEN TIMES SEVEN LIGHTS. all these divided again into sub-groups of septenaries. often compounded with the Elohim. the "Dragons. "One. The Second.The Secret Doctrine by H. in Occult metaphysics there are.. or Iswara. Page]] 130 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. the "Luxuriant Trees" and vegetation of Mount Meru guarded by a Serpent.* Moreover. . . absolute. The monotheists have taken (and are still taking) advantage of the profound esotericism of the Kabala to apply the name by which the One Supreme Essence is known to ITS manifestation. can do all this.05. and men striving towards purification and
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merges thereby into the One Essence to become not only one "with us" (the manifested universal lives which are "ONE" LIFE). It is called the Verbum . Vol 1.
nising fully the non-separateness of the Ego within his personality -. but in our Kosmos. 1. It is called Avalokiteshwara by the Buddhists. . the Cube. the semi-initiated Occultist will represent this laya-point to himself as existing on some
http://www. Subba Row's in "Bhagavadgita" lectures: "Mulaprakriti (the veil of Parabrahmam) acts as the one energy through the Logos (or 'Eswara'). the Second One. pi). . and then stops short. not even Atma. is thus shown to contain the symbol of 31415 again. and starts as a centre of conscious energy at the time of Cosmic activity. and Echod (or Achod) masculine. both meaning ONE. as the lecturer premised by saying. Echath (or Achath) is feminine. in the esoteric as well as in the profane scientific teachings.2003 03:30:57]
.05. but these are no worlds on the Devaloka plane. . it is not even consciousness. ." For. or the coefficient constantly used in mathematical tables (the value of .htm (21 von 25) [06. of course. According to the general philosophical teachings. this ring is beyond the region of what are called nebulae in astronomy.erroneously regarded as his own -from the UNIVERSAL EGO (Anima Supra-Mundi). freeing himself from the trammels of ignorance. by the Christians. Now Parabrahmam. they have formulated the existence of a centre of spiritual energy which is unborn and eternal. and it is the divine Christos who is eternal in the bosom of his father. is the one essence from which starts into existence a centre of energy. . There are worlds. the feminine element almost predominating. and which exists in the bosom of Parabrahmam at the time of Pralaya. It is not Ego nor is it Non-ego. sec 5
"ascending.The Secret Doctrine by H. . as it would read: "ONE is She the Spirit of the Elohim of Life. the First One. ** This metaphysical tenet can hardly be better described than Mr. the geometrical figures standing here for numerical figures." but still not having quite reached the goal -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. Page]] 131 THE SIDEREAL BOOK OF LIFE. In almost every doctrine. but verily the one source of all manifestations and modes of existence. Parabraham is not this or that. . The physicist or the astronomer counts by billions of miles beyond the nebulae. had left its luminary long before the day on which the words "Let there be Light" were pronounced. . at such incalculable distances that the light of the nearest of them which has just reached our modern Chaldees. that day when man. and recog[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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[[Vol. given in Puranic and other exoteric Scriptures. about the 1008 worlds of the Devaloka worlds and firmaments. the "Ring PASS-NOT" that the Lipika trace around the Triangle. and the Pentacle to circumscribe these figures." As said above. and then they also stop short.may cross the "circle of the Pass-Not.

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."the Lord" -. through a dark spot in the Sun. but that it exists in the absoluteness of infinity. The Jiva is directed on its way by the Supreme Wisdom acquired by Yoga. with which are clothed the inferior Dhyanis of the
http://www. therefore." essential depth -. if not physical.from the truly INFINITE.*** The Jiva thus proceeds to Paramapadha by the aid of Athivahikas (bearers in transit).
the Vedantin sect of the Visishtadwaita. The Jiva breaks through the Brahmarandra and goes to the region of the Sun (Suryamandala) through the solar Rays.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. even in these the doctrine embodied in the circle of "Pass-Not" thus guarded by the Lipika. not depth of physical matter.is meant. etc. Thus one finds it even in the teachings of
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plane which. F. Blavatsky. are never again subject to the qualities of either matter or Karma. traversing Sushumna. which place is not material. a nerve connecting the heart with the Brahmarandra. "But if they choose. to the Brahmarandra in the crown of the head."nowhere and everywhere" -.is formed)." In using the word "down. but all is fathomless profundity. by Pundit Bhashyacharya. but made of Suddasatwa (the essence. nor will any do so until the day of the next Pralaya. reaching down from the physical to the "para-parametaphysical. . known by the names of Archi-Ahas . There."* The way to Paramapadha. bliss is enjoyed by it in a place called PARAMAPADHA. P.
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* These voluntary re-incarnations are referred to in our Doctrine as Nirmanakayas (the surviving spiritual principles of men). in fact. nothing of the kind. In this "Infinity" of the full Initiate there is neither height. The Spirits referred to. may be dimly perceived. But the full Initiate knows that the ring "Pass-Not" is neither a locality nor can it be measured by distance. is still conceivable to the human intellect. Vol 1. Then it goes. etc.T.however infinite in man's sight -. the most tenaciously anthropomorphic in all India.05. is called Devayana. breadth nor thickness. for the sake of doing good to the world.htm (22 von 25) [06. to Paramapadha. When a person has attained Moksha and the body dies: -"The Jiva (Soul) goes with Sukshma Sarira** from the heart of the body. bk 1. "dream-like" illusive body. from this world. etc. Aditya.) No Spirit except the "Recorders" (Lipika) has ever crossed its forbidden line. Page]] 132 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. . or the immaterial worlds." But they are.The Secret Doctrine by H. Muktas or Jivatmas (Monads) who have attained Moksha. If one searches carefully through the exoteric and grossly anthropomorphic allegories of popular religions. 1. as those who "ascend and descend" are the "Hosts" of what we loosely call "celestial Beings. ** Sukshma-sarira.

we are taught. Physical Science is welcome to speculate upon the physiological mechanism of living beings. "Christos" with the Gnostics meant the impersonal principal. and Christos delivering and helping her on the right Path. which reasons on the scale of its special capacities. may also.GOD. under totally different conditions to those that constitute the nature of our world. It will hereafter. on her way to Supreme Light. mental and spiritual. all that will ever be accomplished in this direction has already been done. destroys its anthill. feeling it acutely. and attributing the undeserved calamity to a combination of Providence and sin. Massey. the Atman of the Universe. and the Atma within every man's soul -. bk 1.2003 03:30:57]
. which progeny is indissolubly linked with them. in the British Museum "Christos" is almost constantly replaced by "Jesus.not Jesus. Imanuel Kant. that it reciprocally acts upon these and receives impressions from them. nor can it deny that there may be a certain limited communication* between some of those worlds and our own. the labour of many weeks -. *** Compare this esoteric tenet with the Gnostic doctrine found in "Pistis-Sophia" (Knowledge = Wisdom). Page]] 133 THE GOD OF MAN AND THE GOD OF THE ANT. and to continue her fruitless efforts in trying to resolve our feelings. must appear to the ant.
They are Entities of the higher worlds in the hierarchy of Being.theosociety. But so we. quoted by C. Blavatsky.The Secret Doctrine by H. see the avenging finger of a personal God in the hand of the urchin who. our sensations. C. like man. under the impulse of mischief.")
http://www. so immeasurably high that. in which treatise Sophia Achamoth is shown lost in the waters of Chaos (matter). and Science will go no farther. All that science has a right to affirm. to the six lower ones belong hierarchies that can occasionally be seen and heard by men. they must appear as Gods. though in the old Coptic MSS.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06. each principle in man having its direct source in the nature of those great Beings. The ant may also. I know not where. and to place my own soul in the class of these beings. and who do communicate with their progeny of the Earth. Nevertheless.htm (23 von 25) [06. Who knows and who can affirm or deny? The refusal to admit in the whole Solar system of any other reasonable and intellectual beings on the human plane.long years in the chronology of insects. is that there are no invisible Intelligences living under the same conditions as we do. Note well. see in it the result of the sin of its first parent. belong the seven orders of the purely divine Spirits. or when.
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* The greatest philosopher of European birth. Vol 1. to us. assures us that such a communication is in no way improbable. is the greatest conceit of our age. and collectively -. into functions of their inorganic vehicles. in one moment. It cannot deny pointblank the possibility of there being worlds within worlds. P. sec 5
celestial Hierarchy. who furnish us with the respective invisible elements in us. The ant. yet be proved that the human soul stands even in this life in indissoluble connection with all immaterial natures in the spirit-world. mortal men. than ourselves."
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.) The Sun here stands for the Logos (or Christos. all that modern physiological research in connection with psychological problems has. even in spirit. "Le Jour de 'Viens a nous' ."** which
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* E.so the Circle shows the boundary within the Infinity that no man can cross.. on the face of which she traces. The inference drawn by scientists of the type of Buchner. ** See "Le Livre des Morts. the "Great NIGHT. Vol 1. Vogt.g.000. different in substance.
She is before a dead wall. by Viscount de Rouge. The tissues of our objective framework alone are subservient to the analysis and researches of physiological science.05. c'est le jour ou Osiris a dit au Soleil: Viens! Je le vois rencontrant le Soleil dans l'Amenti. and others. Just as the square is the Symbol of the Four sacred Forces or Powers -. there are innumerable other centres . is. and emotion is attended with a re-marshalling of the molecules of certain nerves. could have shown. nor Deva nor Dhyan Chohan. 61. or Horus) as central Essence synthetically. . P.* The six higher principles in them will evade for ever the hand that is guided by an animus that purposely ignores and rejects the Occult Sciences. 1. 311. great physiological and psychic discoveries. and owing to the nature of things. the day of "Come-To-Us. and as a diffused essence of radiated Entities.The Secret Doctrine by H. or the "Unknown Darkness. . p. The Spirits of those who "descend and ascend" during the course of cyclic evolution shall cross the "iron-bound world" only on the day of their approach to the threshold of Paranirvana." Hence the expressions. Its significance is not so easily revealed to a public. If they reach it -they will rest in the bosom of Parabrahmam. "it must not be supposed that the Logos is but a single centre of energy manifested from Parabrahmam. is an expression the only merit of which lies in its literal translation. As expressed by the Bhagavadgita lecturer. that every thought.during the whole period of Mahapralaya." namely.000." which shall then become for all of them Light -. "The Day of Come to us" and "The Day of Be with us.
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http://www. or rather of Esoteric Wisdom or "Budhism. It corresponds to the Day of the Last Judgment of the Christians. sec 5
[[Vol. necessitates a complete abstraction being made of the fact of our subjective consciousness. which has been sorely materialised by their religion. bk 1. Page]] 135 THE SOUL'S PILGRIMAGE.000 years of absorption in Brahm." (Chap.htm (24 von 25) [06." etc." then. . unacquainted with the mystic tenets of Occultism. and their number is almost infinite in the bosom of Parabrahmam. and as hazy for the profane as that of the Egyptians who called the same the "Day of COME-TO-US.
is identical with the former.040.Tetraktis -. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-06." The Funerary Ritual of the Egyptians. though the verb "be" in this sense. The "Great Day of BE-WITH-US.

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.theosociety. The "Monad." as it refers to that long period of REST which is called Paranirvana. so in the present case. that the real Osirification was the lot of every Monad only after 3.htm (25 von 25) [06.became an Osiris.000 cycles of Existences. As in the exoteric interpretation of the Egyptian rites the soul of every defunct person -from the Hierophant down to the sacred bull Apis -. was Osirified.

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. become only gradually androgynous and finally separate into distinct sexes. Son and (the female) Holy Ghost" -the Sakti or Energy -. Mulaprakriti. THE SON OF THE SONS. celestial and terrestrial alike. to approach the Chinese Kwan-yin."the MOTHER" or abstract.from the metaphysical standpoint. Avalokiteshwara. 1. Thus in the Esotericism of the Vedantins. Page]] 136 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.theosociety. sec 6
The Secret Doctrine by H. 1. and the names. THE BREATH OF THEIR PROGENY. just as in the later theological translations she became "the Father. Vol 1. -. as it would only confuse the reader. FOHAT. -. 1. bk1. It is only in China and Egypt that Kwan-Yin and Isis were placed on a par with the male gods. HAVING CALLED FORTH FROM THE LOWER ABYSS (chaos) THE ILLUSIVE FORM OF SIEN-TCHAN (our Universe) AND THE SEVEN ELEMENTS: -(a. are preserved. No exoteric religious system has ever adopted a female Creator. The Brahmanical doctrine has no equivalent to these. KWAN-YIN. Vach seems. she is the "Mother. p.and from the purely occult and
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Cosmical. 1887.the Essence of the three. as inferior to man. BY THE POWER OF THE MOTHER OF MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE (a). in many an aspect. as there is of Kwan-Yin in China. and its first manifested beings.* THE "TRIPLE" OF KWAN-SHAI-YIN." the androgynous energy resulting from this "Light of the
http://www.* the "Son of the Son.Vol.05.
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[[Vol. manifested in the Logos. first lecture on the Bhagavadgita. while in that of the trans-Himalayan teachings it is -. Blavatsky -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. as the equivalents of the original terms. P. Fohat. The real esoteric nomenclature cannot be given. Daiviprakriti. Its highest Deity is sexless as it is formless.) The Mother of Mercy and Knowledge is called "the triple" of Kwan-Shai-Yin because in her correlations. ideal matter.in the hierarchy of allegorical and metaphysical theogony -. RESIDING IN KWAN-YIN-TIEN (b). the Logos.

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. thus Vach and Kwan-Yin are both the magic potency of Occult sound in Nature and Ether -. as is stated.it is in this way a learned Vedantin Occultist speaks of that "goddess. Every kind of Vaikhari-Vach exists in its Madhyama."who yields us nourishment and sustenance. the "daughter of the Divine Voice. ." as the expression of thought." so is Vach. between objective matter and the subjective thought of Eswara (or Logos). This light of the Logos is the link . and even the origin of the Hebrew Bath-Kol. not merely on account of the potentialities locked up in Mulaprakriti. Now the whole manifested solar System exists in its Sukshma form in the light or energy of the Logos. because its energy is caught up and transferred to Cosmic matter. of Brahma. so to speak. (b) Kwan-Yin-Tien means the "melodious heaven of Sound. who is Vach. in company with Kwan-Yin." explaining the reason why Eswara (or Brahma) is called Verbum or Logos. and Parabrahm the Para form or aspect of that Vach. and ultimately in its Para form. one "generated by the gods" -. male and female.* The reason why this Pranava is called Vach is this. sec 6
Logos." or Verbum. and the Logos itself the Pasyanti form. the Word. Viraj. the illusive form of the Universe out of Chaos and the Seven Elements. the "Heavenly Man" or Adam Kadmon. She is associated in the work of creation with the Prajapati. And she is a form of Aditi . If Kwan-Yin is the "melodious Voice. further in its Pasyanti. 306: "Evolution is commenced by the intellectual energy of the Logos. Blavatsky.the principle higher than Ether -. the goddess of the active forces in Nature." the abode of Kwan-Yin. . "the melodious cow who milked forth sustenance and water" (the female principle) -.05. It is by the light of this explanation that we must try to understand certain statements made by various philosophers to the effect that the manifested Kosmos is the Verbum manifested as Kosmos" (see Lecture on the
http://www.in Akasa.htm (2 von 14) [06. as much as the revealed. Electricity -. or the "Divine Voice" literally.is. that the four principles of the great Kosmos correspond to these four forms of Vach. as Eve is with Adam."
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"The explanation I am going to give you will appear thoroughly mystical.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. or Brahma again -. P. 1. who is at the same time Sephira. Thus may be traced the connection with." and which manifests in the plane of the objective Universe as the hidden.theosociety. it has a tremendous significance when properly understood. . and creating in the latter.which "Voice" calls forth Sien-Tchan. Vaikhari-Vach is what we utter. with Isis (also the daughter. the light of the Logos is the Madhyama form. the goddess of Speech. who is himself. or of the Word. . bk1. Thus in Manu Brahma (the Logos also) is shown dividing his body into two parts.which is LIFE. The latter was surely anticipated by the Hindu Vach. It is called in several Buddhist books Fohat. Page]] 138 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. This "Voice" is a synonym of the Verbum or the Word: "Speech. why in fact it is called Sabda Brahmam: -[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
* Says the lecturer on p. . the synthesis of all the forces in Nature. and Speech. The whole Kosmos in its objective form is Vaikhari-Vach.The Secret Doctrine by H. the female Logos. but if mystical. She is male and female ad libitum. wife and sister of Osiris) and other goddesses. Voice or Sound.

It has often been asked what was the exact definition of Fohat and his powers and functions.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. "The whole Kosmos must necessarily exist in the One Source of energy from which this light (Fohat) emanates. and add that Fohat is the guiding Spirit of all this.. and on the Cosmic plane is behind all such manifestations as light. sec 6
Bhagavadgita. For. as he seems to exercise those of a Personal God as understood in the popular religions. P. "just as a human being is composed of seven principles. the forces of. As an abstraction. (a. blind force.
the differentiation of the elements which enter into the constitution of our Solar System. we speak of a septenary scale of manifestation. physical Nature are Seven.) The seven Layu centres are the seven Zero points.* He is One and Seven. Page]] 139 FROM NO-NUMBER TO NUMBER SEVEN. using the term Zero in the same sense that Chemists do.) 2.begins
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. SURROUNDING SIENTCHAN WITH THE ELEMENTARY GERMS (b). the Occultists point to intelligent LAW and sentient LIFE. we call it the ONE LIFE. while science speaks of its evolution through brute matter. which begins at the upper rung with the One Unknowable CAUSALITY. which is the LIFE of the Universe. referred to above). the Seven Logoi of the Hermetic and all other philosophers -.05. bk1. as an objective and evident Reality. Vol 1. and ends as Omnipresent Mind and Life immanent in every atom of Matter. 1. exists in seven different aspects corresponding to the seven conditions of matter" (Personal and impersonal God). THE SWIFT AND THE RADIANT ONE PRODUCES THE SEVEN Layu** (a) CENTRES.AND SEATS THE UNIVERSE ON THESE ETERNAL FOUNDATIONS.(Continued. but the emanation of those other Powers behind him whom the Christians call the "Messengers" of their God (who is in
http://www. sound. From the Centres -.The Secret Doctrine by H. ------STANZA VI. and is the "spirit" of ELECTRICITY.beyond which Esoteric philosophy allows us to perceive the dim metaphysical outlines of the "Seven Sons" of Life and Light. ** From the Sanskrit Laya. etc." Whether we count the principles in Kosmos and man as seven or only as four. Yet he is no personal god at all.. and it is stated by the same authority that "Pragna. and in. etc. and senseless motion. the point of matter where every differentiation has ceased. Thus. adhesion. Blavatsky. differentiated matter in the Solar System exists in seven different conditions" (ibid). in Esotericism. So does Fohat. -.

" But this first stage of Evolution was in due course of time followed by the next. speaking of Elements. SEVEN SMALL WHEELS REVOLVING. 1.) Although these Stanzas refer to the whole Universe after a Mahapralaya (universal destruction). were of course. while the fifth -. with modern Science. THREE MANIFESTED -. or that which is absolute) are the Atoms of Science and the Monads of Leibnitz. as any student of Occultism may see. FOUR AND ONE TSAN (fraction) REVEALED -. and we. Jivatma. or the "Soul of the World.TWO AND ONE HALF CONCEALED. It is.
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* The shades of our pre-historical ancestors might return the compliment to modern physicists.ONE LAID ASIDE (a). merged after a life-cycle into the latency of their primary conditions. now that new discoveries in chemistry have led Mr. as no heavenly body. P.theosociety. it is made the standing reproach of the Ancients.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. ONE GIVING BIRTH TO THE OTHER (b). whether we call it.
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reality only the Elohim. the realm of negativeness -. had not the Elements been sufficiently differentiated already from their primeval Ilus.The Secret Doctrine by H.. Vol 1." the Force that he personifies having formed our Septenary chain. Blavatsky. Cosmic dust and Fire Mist. No world.wherein lie latent during their period of rest the active Forces of the Universe.THREE HIDDEN.Ether -.S. and consequently the fifth Element will manifest fully only in the Fifth Round. (a. (See Stanza V. Crookes. as germs. or rather one of the Seven Creators called Elohim). The latter term is a synonym of Nirvana.) The "Elementary Germs" with which he fills Sien-Tchan (the "Universe") from Tien-Sin (the "Heaven of Mind. Now." (b. four elements are now fully manifested. The Worlds.

resolved it into the two bodies praseodymium and neodymium. Earth. as. It had been separated with much difficulty from other bodies which approximated closely to it in their properties.the latter a terra incognita to this day to modern Science. we are surely warranted in asking whether similar results might not be obtained in other elements. On the contrary. "is there no way out of this perplexity? Must we either make the elementary examinations so stiff that only 60 or 70 candidates can pass.defining it by its outward aspects in short. But that which
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ment. But then came another chemist. if one supposed element on proper treatment is thus found to comprise dissimilar molecules.
http://www. Vol 1. if treated in the right way. He says: "Take the case of yttrium. an element. It has its definite atomic weight. since it is they who have invented allegories and religious myths from the beginning. Water. Now. this supposed homogeneous whole. Or take the case of didymium. treating this assumed homogeneous body by a peculiar process of fractionation. March.htm (5 von 14) [06. elements born from and within each respective Element.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. even in theory. evolution of light and heat. their Cosmic gods and goddesses would never have been blessed with such posterity. with so many sons and daughters. Earth. 1. From him we learn that such a thing as a really simple [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. "Where are we to draw the line?" he asks. And in these successive separations we naturally find bodies approaching more and more closely to each other. between which certain distinctions are perceptible. at any rate. they likewise exhibit symptoms of splitting up. Alchemy and occult phenomena would have been a delusion and a snare. Air. Had they been ignorant of the Heterogeneity of their Elements they would have had no personifications of Fire. bk1. who. state of ignition. sec 6
leagues from the knowledge of the compound nature of the simplest molecule." (Presidential address before the Royal Society of Chemists. which is obliged to call it Motion. and exhibiting a gradation of properties. 1888. Water. and AEther. -. we even now have no certainty that neodymium and praseodymium are simple bodies. Blavatsky.The Secret Doctrine by H. on being submitted to a certain method of fractionation. P.05. or must we open the examination doors so wide that the number of admissions is limited only by the number of applicants?" And then the learned gentleman gives striking instances. and even Fire -. 1. had the Ancients been ignorant of the potentialities and correlative functions and attributes of every element that enters into the composition of Air. Yet this yttrium. and remaining ignorant of its nature.theosociety. it behaved in every respect as a simple body. is resolved into portions not absolutely identical among themselves.2003 03:31:01]
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Page]] 143 THE SLEEP OF THE ETERNAL MOTHER. as they are now. like Aditi and Daksha.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. correlating. which has been known for ages to the Occultists. its pristine purity is gone for ever. and those among the greatest physicists and chemists. Earth (synonym for solids generally) existed in their present form.* Therefore. and that the atmosphere of our earth. or of atoms rather. or to show whether atoms gravitate towards one another in the same way and under the same conditions as they are supposed to do on our planet. 1. from the highest degree to the lowest that can be conceived of. Once caught by the latter. other than those of dissociation and reassociation. are scattered by Fohat. P. as of every other globe. Blavatsky. Neither Water. during rapid passage through our atmosphere. they were not the compound bodies known to science. it is unable to go any farther." the essence of Cometary matter. Thus not alone the elements of our planets. and thus changing their combining equivalents on every planet. for instance. but even those of all its sisters in the Solar System. And even that matter. 242). which.even to fire -. and taking its flight. differ on every planet. every atom born beyond the threshold of her realm is doomed to incessant differentiation. bk1. a crucible of its own.which archaic philosophy called "the creators of their respective Parents. differentiated as may have been those simple chemical atoms -.htm (6 von 14) [06. Vol 1. the atom is lost. sec 6
modern Science seems to fail to perceive is that. for all these are the productions already recombined by the atmospheres of globes completely formed -.** Enshrined in their virgin. so to say. for example -. Now that the conditions and laws ruling our solar system are fully developed. husbands of their mothers. physical Science. Occult Science teaches that there is a perpetual exchange taking place in space of molecules. nevertheless. still. has become. carried on by the wave of the efflux. "is totally different from any of the chemical or physical characteristics with which the greatest chemists and physicists of the earth are acquainted" (p. they cannot be taken as a standard for comparison with the same in other worlds. undreamt of. The spectroscope only shows the probable similarity (on external evidence) of terrestrial and sidereal substance." fathers. begin to suspect this fact. it will be brought under a state of differential equilibrium and happily re-absorbed. and those mothers the daughters of their own sons. physically and chemically.05. unless Fate dissociates it by leading it to "a current of EFFLUX" (an occult term meaning quite a different process from that which the ordinary term implies). Air. perchance also his subsequent
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Solar limits. representing the three states of matter alone recognised by Science. as from the Cosmic elements beyond our
[[Vol. and incognizable to. its properties.theosociety. when it may be carried once more to the borderland where it had perished.differentiated as these elements were in the beginning. pristine state within the bosom of the Eternal Mother. As already expressed in "Five Years of Theosophy. brothers. undergoes a certain change in its nature. The scale of temperature." And every breath sends out into the plane of manifestation her Protean products. Were a truly learned Occultist-alchemist to write the "Life and Adventures of an Atom" he would secure thereby the eternal scorn of the modern chemist. and thus atoms enter into new forms of existence.so that in the first periods of the earth's formation they were something quite sui generis. and driven toward and beyond this or another planetary atmosphere.2003 03:31:01]
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. though supersensuous. no doubt. -. Man absorbs cold pure air on the mountain-top. The individual Fohats make one Universal. Thus -. whom we consider as conscious and intelligent Forces.htm (7 von 14) [06." And he adds: "In the first place we may call in question this absolute molecular identity. &c.* However it may be. ------STANZA VI. Therefore there must be many Fohats.our terrestrial plane. they should be examined under identical states of temperature. PLACING THEM ON THE IMPERISHABLE CENTRES (a). HOW DOES FOHAT BUILD THEM? HE COLLECTS THE FIERY DUST. Collective Fohat -. and all other physical conditions. for accurately comparing and discriminating the spectra of two bodies. saying "that the elements are not absolutely homogeneous. 'SAT. "he is doomed to die on it." ** "Each world has its Fohat. But there are as many Fohats as there are worlds. We have certainly seen. RUNS THROUGH THEM AND ROUND THEM. Nevertheless the Occultists. sec 6
* This is again corroborated by the same man of science in the same lecture.it is said. who have good reasons for it. Blavatsky.the aspect-Entity of the one absolute Non-Entity. therefore. rays which we have not been able to identify." takes place in the sixth region from above. since we have hitherto had no means for coming to a conclusion save the means furnished by the spectroscope. "The Breath of the Father-Mother issues cold and radiant and gets hot and corrupt. HE MAKES BALLS OF FIRE. who quotes Clerk Maxwell. who is omnipresent in his own sphere of action. and the lower one the lungs of every globe -. THEN
http://www. bk1.The Secret Doctrine by H. states of Matter. This. as we have reason to believe.Continued.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. in the spectrum of the sun.the man of our planet breathes only the refuse of "Mother".05.theosociety. but in this case they refer to our septenary ring. one to the other. if. Vol 1. 1. By "Wheels" the various spheres and centres of forces are generally meant. and as possible objects of perception to Beings endowed with the requisite senses. and on the plane of the most material world of all in the manifested Kosmos -.
gratitude. 5 and 6). pressure. of the fixed stars is composed of molecules identical in all respects with our own. the hydrogen. INFUSING LIFE THEREINTO."** (b) The process referred to as "the small wheels giving birth. which is absolute Be-Ness. and be purified in the eternal bosom of inner Space. to cool once more. P." He writes: "It is difficult to conceive of selection and elimination of intermediate varieties. consider all the forces of Nature as veritable. hot and transformed.
[[Vol. Page]] 144 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 4." says the Commentary. each varying in power and degree of manifestations. These "Seven Wheels" are our planetary chain (see Commentary Nos.' "Millions and billions of worlds are produced at every Manvantara" -. while it is admitted that. for where can these eliminated molecules have gone to. HE BUILDS THEM IN THE LIKENESS OF OLDER WHEELS (worlds). and throws it out impure.the higher atmosphere being the mouth. to the disgust of scientific minds.

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* Indeed. 1. and their meaning must be fully understood if we would have a clear conception of the Archaic Cosmogony. reducing it to its pure essence (for which there are means). The Seven "Sons-brothers. and Fohat is forced to be born time after time whenever any two of his son-brothers indulge in too close contact -." as the Alchemists of old did. nor over. he binds together and unites those of unlike nature and separates those of similar temperaments. according to Brahminical calculations." however. growth. Sound.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. and decay of everything in Kosmos. The worlds are built neither upon.The Secret Doctrine by H. Electricity. THEY ARE DRY -. those that existed in preceding Manvantaras and went into Pralaya.HE FANS AND COOLS THEM (b). Page]] 145 THE COSMIC PLANE. The "imperishable Laya Centres" have a great importance. Occult Science defines all these as Super-sensuous effects in their hidden behaviour. SOME ONE. But this LAW acts on every planet through minor and varying laws.theosociety.whether an embrace or a fight. to have sprung like Rudra from Brahma "from the brain of the Father and the bosom of the Mother. (b) Bear in mind that Fohat. Heat. would discover thereby a substitute for an "Elixir of Life" and prepare it for practical use. one thing may be stated. sec 6
SETS THEM INTO MOTION. metaphorically. This. To avoid this. whose theories have now passed into Occultism. of course. THEY ARE COLD -. ** He who would allotropise sluggish oxygen into Ozone to a measure of alchemical activity. he might be repaid for his audacity. He has seven sons who are his brothers.2003 03:31:01]
.htm (8 von 14) [06..000 years. It is an everlasting work of perfection with every new appearance. relates. *** A period of 311. is ONE. polarity.
because the LAW for the birth. bk1. among other energies. Light. and would for a moment step out of the habitual groove of strictly "Exact Science.i." whose co-operative and active progeny are..040. Cohesion.e. represent and personify the seven forms of Cosmic magnetism called in practical Occultism the "Seven Radicals.HE MAKES THEM MOIST. Blavatsky. is said. At present. to electricity generated by friction and to the law involving attraction between two objects of unlike." and then to have metamorphosed himself into a male and a female. AN ILLUSION. and repulsion between those of like polarity.05.e.HE MAKES THEM HOT.000. the zero-point being a condition. and as objective phenomena in the world of
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and the guiding Master Intelligence within the vehicle. Electricity. To attempt a description of such ENTITIES would be worse than useless. though invisible. for this would be equivalent to calling the noise produced by the rolling of the wheels of a vehicle an Entity -.
from this world of Maya. Blavatsky. having no existence outside the observer. the proximate exciting cause of the sensation is comparable to the driver -. but belonging to.a purely phenomenal effect. Therefore. Of course we shall never agree with the American Substantialists* who call every Force and Energy -whether Light. as being removed the farther
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. Ph. The sensation of light is like the sound of the rolling wheels -. or rather imperceptible. heat. Electricity or Cohesion -. behind even this. just as every drop of water generates its physical
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* See "Scientific Arena. then. But. Page]] 147 PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE. To expand. such as light. magnetism. secondary Causes and in themselves the effects of primary Causes behind the Veil of all terrestrial phenomena. They all pertain to. Editor. 1. according to our teaching which regards this phenomenal Universe as a great Illusion. intelligent DIVINE Workmen. have been aptly termed the "Ghost or Shadow of Matter in Motion. the Intelligences from whose essence radiate these States of "Mother. in the direct causes producing them.
http://www. (1886. The intimate connection of those Elementals (guided by the unerring hand of the Rulers) -. Wilford Hall. But we certainly give that name to the "drivers" and to these guiding Intelligences -. the more it approaches reality.theosociety.Universe. are the acting. though the molecular constitution of their bodies is not deducible from their manifestations on this plane of consciousness. real and conscious CAUSES. A REALITY. etc. P. Vol 1. sec 6
senses." if they will..as opposed to the phenomenal -. Men of science may term them Force or Forces generated by matter.the ruling Dhyan Chohans. The "Elementals. and are the emanations of.with the elements of pure Matter.their correlation we might call it -. our ordinary physical senses. etc." a monthly Journal devoted to current philosophical teaching and its bearing upon the religious thought of the Age. light. LL. and. Occultism sees in the effects "Elemental" (forces). Page]] 146 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Heat. the simile given above. The reader must bear in mind that.thus confusing and identifying that "noise" with the driver outside.the higher and noumenal causes. August." the Nature-Forces. etc." i.)
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We are forced to admit that between these two planes of matter an incessant circulation takes place.that matter.) It is Fohat who guides the transfer of the principles from one planet to the other.") It is most remarkable that. (Vide infra. and claim to know what it is able and is not able to do..org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. or rather modifies its perpetual motion on seven invisible points within the area of the manifested Universe. When a planet dies. the limiting point of any given set of senses. imagine two consecutive planes of matter as already formed. its informing principles are transferred to a laya or sleeping centre. and it emanates from the living and thinking Entity that breathed. the Root of all. Magnetism. from one star to another -.with an inherent quality called Force. Heat. "The great Breath digs through Space seven holes into Laya to cause them to circumgyrate during Manvantara" (Occult Catechism). or the one real absolute Force. or again the Noumenon of Undifferentiated Cosmic Substance which is itself an unreachable and unknowable object to finite perception. etc. who do not say -. Indeed. When Fohat is said to produce "Seven Laya Centres. (See "Gods. the neutral axis.the physicists should set themselves up as judges. i.e. In fact. is to create a far more serious difficulty than that which lies in the acceptation of the intervention of our "Nature-Spirits" in every natural phenomenon.. nevertheless. Monads. is also. of the nature of which still less is known. the realm of absolute negativeness." in Part III.. not one of the many aspects. while honestly confessing their entire ignorance of the true Nature of even terrestrial matter -. 1. to endow matter -. Light. and it is as undeniably not a quality of the matter.child-star. We
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infinitesimal Infusoria. Scientists know it (matter) hardly skin-deep. "A Few Theosophical Misconceptions. the GREAT LAW (Theists may call it God) stops.something of which nothing is known so far -. is indestructible and eternal.theosociety. or the particles of that speck. of that matter. which is thus awakened into life and begins to form itself into a new sidereal body. A "neutral centre" is.the dream of those who would discover perpetual motion. P. these will come to a point where they pass altogether beyond the range of the faculties we are using on the lower plane.if they would express themselves correctly -.htm (10 von 14) [06.. in one aspect. But the force that is inherent in a living person's breath. the differentiated aspects of that Universal Motion which is discussed and explained in the first pages of this volume (See Proem). etc. when blowing a speck of dust from the table. but its centre. and yet they will dogmatise. and undeniably. are in esse. (i. whether the impulse originated consciously or unconsciously. with potential but latent energy in it. It may serve to elucidate the meaning if we attempt to imagine a neutral centre -. It is "a mode of motion" and nothing else. The Occultists." it means that for formative or creative purposes.primordial substance being regarded more as a dream than as a sober reality -. Vol 1. to us the matter of the lower plane
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" quickens matter into activity and evolution. Among many other objections to the doctrine of an endless evolution and re-involution (or reabsorption) of the Kosmos."
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. and the progress of knowledge would have proceeded with gigantic strides. or its primogeneity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. to connect. brought it to? To speculation generally -mere soap-bubbles. we believe. All this would have been avoided. therefore it is called "SUM TOTAL. only to re-emerge after a time of rest out of the subjective and to reascend once more. to revolutionise the motor power of the world -. "How. of Philadelphia. Blavatsky. are produced by Fohat.theosociety.or rather it passes on to the higher plane.htm (11 von 14) [06. is the boundless Space of the Divine Plenum to the Occultist. The Primordial Atom (anu) cannot be multiplied either in its pregenetic state. since "by all the admissions of
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modern scientific philosophy it is a necessity of Nature to run down. according to the Brahminical and Esoteric Doctrine. Our Kosmos and Nature will run down only to reappear on a more perfect plane after every PRALAYA. and define all the phenomena of organic life by mere physical and chemical manifestations. that burst one after the other before the men of Science were permitted to discover real facts.The Secret Doctrine by H.destined. of course. as that "SUM TOTAL" is boundless. "do your Positivists and Free-thinkers and Scientists account for the phalanx around us of active stellar systems?" They had eternity to "run down" in. But apart from this it must be noted that the idea of the amount of "transformable energy" in our little system coming to an end is based purely on the fallacious conception of a "white-hot. as Milton has it -"Fair foundations (are) laid whereon to build ."* then. what is our scientific philosophy but that which was so justly and so politely defined by Kant as "the Science of the limits to our Knowledge"? Where have the many attempts made by Science to bind. 1. sec 6
there vanishes from our perception into nothing -. as his admirers have hoped. P." figuratively. and the state of matter corresponding to such a point of transition must certainly possess special and not readily discoverable properties.to what he again calls the "Etheric Centres. had only Science and its philosophy abstained from accepting hypotheses on the
http://www. Such "Seven Neutral Centres. . who knows only the world of visible causes and effects.05. is not the Kosmos a huge inert mass? Even the moon is only hypothetically believed to be a dead planet." and astronomy does not seem to be acquainted with many such dead planets. why. incandescent Sun" perpetually radiating away his heat without compensation into Space.

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mere one-sided Knowledge of their Matter. She is aptly referred to in Occultism as the "insane mother. was chiefly based on the above fact that all the planets revolved in the same direction. that this great astronomer.. The famous hypothesis of the formation of our Solar System out of the nebulous rings.may differ in their constitution along the line of their planes of existence. psychically and spiritually.
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. It is on this fact. how can any materialist limit the laws changing the conditions and being of the atoms in primordial chaos. 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. This idea of Laplace's mistake prevails generally to this day. The immutable laws of scientific mathematics got "worsted by further experiments and observations. does not necessarily bear upon the finite conditions to which every visible body is subject.far thicker in space than the grains on the ocean shore -. astronomers. or know anything certain about the capabilities and potency of their atoms and molecules before and after their formation into worlds? These changeless and eternal molecules -. bk1. chronological data from which to start in attempting to decide the age of our planet or the origin of the solar system. and steps to correct it without attracting general attention to the bevue are now being taken. she is only as a semi-paralysed body may be. Physically. P. it was thought. and physicists are drifting with each new hypothesis farther and farther away from the shores of fact into the fathomless depths of speculative ontology. calculating on the theory of probabilities. even approximate." the great sidereal lunatic.**
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[[Vol. Page]] 150 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.theosociety. offered to bet three milliards to one that the next planet discovered would have in its system the same peculiarity of motion Eastward. revolved.i. four and one respectively. the body. ** The instance of Uranus and Neptune. geologists. whose satellites. mathematically demonstrated during the time of Laplace. Each atom has seven planes of being or existence. we are taught.e. but it has to be studied in its minutest details and. however absurd the statement may seem. or to fathom the ultimate nature and essence of those grains. In Occult Science this law is the first and most important key to Cosmic physics. whereas all the other satellites rotate from West to East. palpable and visible on the palm of the naturalist. Many such unpleasant surprises are in
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of course -. Occultism teaches that the so-called "reverse rotation" is a fact. refer only to the evolution of. But before entirely new and rather startling theories are presented to the reader.618. and also the explanation of certain points which have remained obscure. in reality. Occult Nature? At any rate. who claim to base their explanations and renderings of these teachings on the same authority as we do. sec 6
store for hypotheses of even a purely physical character. having most perfect faith in their own exact records.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07. then. must not be surprised to find in these pages the rectification of certain statements made in various Theosophical works. whereas the difference. and on.is held."
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. Page]] 151 NATURE CAN NEVER CEASE. Thus the reader. All the Stanzas and verses which follow in this Book I. may there not be in questions of a transcendental. earlier statements made by other Theosophists. as these theories clash not only with modern science. With regard to the latter. sweeps out of Space every differentiated thing. because they were necessarily left incomplete. the Stanzas are concerned only with our Solar System in general.the 4th Sloka of Stanza VI.theosociety. Occult philosophy is the only science that can teach it. and with the history of our globe (the 4th and its chain) especially. then." before one comes to understand it. How.727 years. This is absolutely necessary. can anyone hang the truth or the untruth of the Occultist's proposition that "the Kosmos is eternal in its unconditioned collectivity. who is already a student of Theosophy. our Earth. and finite but in its conditioned manifestations" on this one-sided physical enunciation that "it is a necessity of Nature to run down?" --------------------With these verses -. with the planetary chains therein. but contradict.* This may give rise to the idea that there is a decided contradiction between the expounders of the same doctrine. inferentially.The Secret Doctrine by H. Many are the questions upon which even the author of "Esoteric Buddhism" (the best and
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turned seven times.05. * The Occultists. 1. bk1. and assert that the latter (as separate sexes) has existed in this Round just 18. -. they must be prefaced by a few words of explanation. What further disillusions.

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most accurate of all such works) has not touched.theosociety. even he has introduced several mistaken notions which must now be presented in their true mystic light. Let us then make a short break between the Slokas just explained and those which follow. as far as the present writer is capable of doing so.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-07.htm (14 von 14) [06. P. 1. Blavatsky.05. for the Cosmic periods which separate them are of immense duration.

Saturn. etc. if any. These invisible companions correspond curiously to that which we call "the principles in Man. the six others lying outside of it and being therefore invisible to the terrestrial eye.its reincarnation. and (b) that Deity is Law.. Page]] 153 DESCENDING AND RE-ASCENDING STATES. AND MAN. P. the lowest and the most material of those globes. whether known or unknown.
Buddhism"). Vol 1. lower.Vol.of which seven only were held as sacred. a few words of explanation is all that is needed at present.that each of these.
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. and also in the diagram appended to the Comments on Verse 7 of Stanza VI.05. the countless circular chains of worlds. It is idle to speak of "laws arising when Deity prepares to create" for (a) laws or rather LAW is eternal and uncreated. Among the eleven Stanzas omitted* there is one which gives a full description of the formation of the planetary chains one after another. Jupiter. ROUNDS. 1. ** Many more planets are enumerated in the Secret Books than in modern astronomical works.. as being ruled by the highest regents or gods. answering to
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for the sake of a clearer mental conception. we imagine the human principles to be arranged as in the following scheme. Kama Rupa (Vehicle of Desires and Passions). the diagram does not place them quite in order. but. sec 6a
the three Upadhis (material bases) and one spiritual vehicle (Vahan) of our seven principles in the human division. Prana. Spirit is enumerated the first instead of seventh.in both the mystic and the physical senses -. 4. and their interblending for the great coming "struggle of life" that awaits both the entities. the adjustment -. 6. P. Atma. 1. Vol 1. If. "Entity" may be thought a strange term to use in the case of a globe. ought not to be done. as regards the human principles. yet it shows the correspondence and analogy to which attention is now drawn. bk 1.2003 03:31:04]
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and of inertia or death -. sends all its energy and "principles" into a neutral centre of latent force. at any rate. and become personally extinct.05. P. and Pliny. .e." But this only shows how admirably the occult philosophy fits everything in Nature. . . a "laya centre. like that of 15 millions of years for the whole past process of formation of the solar system. and how much more logical are its tenets than the lifeless hypothetical speculations of physical science. For Earth is only the footstool of man in his ascension to higher regions.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. the vestibule -".* It is said that the planetary chains having their "Days" and their
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philosophers. holds that the theory at present under discussion is far more philosophical and probable than any other.e.. spoke more truly than Watts. Through which a moving crowd for ever press.i. who called the Earth our kind nurse and mother. bk 1. while the utmost actual retardation obtained from observation would require 600 millions of years to make it rotate in twenty-three hours instead of twenty-four" (p.The Secret Doctrine by H.2003 03:31:04]
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"Nights" -. than the theory recently advanced which made of the moon the projection of a portion of our Earth extruded when the latter was but a globe in fusion." and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated substance or matter. and probably will. as in that which supposes the moon to have been thrown off when the Earth was rotating in three hours. Samuel Laing: "The astronomical conclusions are theories based on data so uncertain. their spiritual principles only living in their progeny as a survival of themselves. in others they give results almost incredibly long.htm (3 von 16) [06. that while in some cases they give results incredibly short.and behave in heaven as do men on Earth: they generate their likes. a molten plastic mass.theosociety. Without attempting the very difficult task of giving out the whole process in all its cosmic details. The student of occultism. Blavatsky. Having learned thus much. And if physicists persist. enough may be said to give an approximate idea of it. who fancied that he saw in her the footstool of God.. 1. Suppose such a process to have taken place in the lunar
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"planetary" chain. it is said. undeniably. for argument's sake (though Mr.aeons before the first globe of our seven was evolved -. The Moon. For Darwin's theory to hold good.") And now it will be easy to imagine further Globe A of the lunar chain informing Globe A of the terrestrial chain.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08.theosociety. The Moon is now the cold residual quantity. the moon is the friend of the sorcerers and the foe of the unwary. and -. suppose again. . has cooled nearly six times as rapidly as the Earth (Winchell's "World-Life"): "The Moon. Blavatsky." and the "Planetary Chain. Mercury and Venus have no satellites but they had "parents" just as the earth had. down to some of the present tantrikas of Bengal. we say. invisible. her nature and properties were known to every Occultist.
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. while at the same time it is the graveyard or corpse-emanations." Why should Venus and Mercury have no satellites. Therefore its emanations are at the same time beneficent and maleficent -. but this does not invalidate the theory that she has given to the Earth all but her corpse. then Globe C of the lunar. in which rotation has almost ceased since the birth of our globe.just in the same position in relation to each other as the fellowglobes of our chain occupy in regard to our Earth now. 1. even if the fact has not yet been ascertained by mathematical calculation) that the moon is far older than the Earth. She now is doomed for long ages to be ever pursuing the Earth." etc.the key of matter -. which kill. Both are far older than the Earth and. having transferred them to a new centre becoming virtually a dead planet.05. were they formed? Because.Globe D.000.
http://www. into which her living powers and "principles" are transfused. before the latter reaches her seventh Round.The Secret Doctrine by H. For she is a dead. when they exist. our Earth -. although the body which they had formed is soulless and lifeless. why can no similar inference be established for the Moons of other planets? The Astronomers "do not know. and. and by what. Page]] 156 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. energy and powers. And if our Moon is but a splash from our Earth. Vol 1. From the archaic aeons and the later times of the witches of Thessaly. Globe B of the former sending after that its energy into Globe B of the new chain. (See in "Esoteric Buddhism. the shadow dragged after the new body. to be attracted by and to attract her progeny. and poisoned influence which emanates from the occult side of her nature. Darwin's theory quoted below has lately been upset. And like all ghouls or vampires. if the earth is 14. science has only one key -. yet a living body. is only eleven and two thirds millions of years old since that stage .this circumstance finding its parallel on earth in the fact that the grass and plants are nowhere more juicy and thriving than on the graves.to open the mysteries of nature withal. but have remained a closed book for physicists. other still more incongruous speculations had to be invented. then the Moon (our Satellite*) pouring forth into
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* She is the satellite.000 years old since its incrustation. The particles of her decaying corpse are full of active and destructive life." "The Constitution of Man.dying. besides the hypothesis just upset (vide last footnote). bk 1.htm (4 von 16) [06. Imagine the six fellow-globes of the moon -. Constantly vampirised by her child.

Subba Row. As to her metaphysical and psychic nature it must remain an occult secret in this work." notwithstanding the rather sanguine statement made therein on p. and from a metaphysical point of view he is quite right. since there are planets which have several moons -.theosociety. Page]] 157 OPINIONS DIFFER AND YET AGREE.htm (5 von 16) [06. T. indeed. as the "Moons" of the other planets have. as it was in the volume on "Esoteric Buddhism. He prefers the Brahmanical division of the Raja Yoga. never sanctioned or permitted any published speculations upon them. Yet without treading upon the forbidden ground of the "eighth sphere.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. But." and since they have." These are topics.
leading part in the coming Anthropogenesis. This brings us directly to the septenary constitution of man.The Secret Doctrine by H. as the case may be. 113 (5th edition) that "there is not much mystery left now in the riddle of the eighth sphere. sec 6a
Such is the moon from the astronomical. geological. bk 1.
[[Vol. 1. Vol 1." it may be useful to state some additional facts with regard to ex-monads of the lunar chain -.a mystery again which no OEdipus of astronomy has solved. moreover. we hold in this work to the "time-honoured" classification of the trans-Himalayan "Arhat Esoteric School. P. The subjoined short article is from the pen of Mr.05. the less said the better. two systems are now appended with a view to facilitate comparison. and they are also contained in "Five Years of Theosophy": -SEPTENARY DIVISION IN DIFFERENT INDIAN SYSTEMS. and physical standpoints.the "lunar ancestors" -.2003 03:31:04]
." The following table and its explanatory text are reprinted from the "Theosophist" of Madras. Blavatsky. or have not.as they play a
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] into thin air. "We give below in a tabular form the classifications adopted by the Buddhist and Vedantic teachers of the principles of man: --
http://www. and as some discussion has arisen of late about the best classification to be adopted for the division of the microcosmic entity. "on which the adepts are very reserved in their communications to uninitiated pupils. as it is a question of simple choice and expediency. a learned Vedantin scholar.

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. and its higher part.theosociety. Vol 1. and which is. the sheath of every principle. sec 6a
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* Kosa (kosha) is "Sheath" literally. or basis of the principle. as it were. He cannot separate the seven principles from each other without destroying his constitution.
From the foregoing table it will be seen that the third principle in the Buddhist classification is not separately mentioned in the Vedantic division.htm (6 von 16) [06. Though there are seven principles in man. there are but three distinct Upadhis (bases). as it is merely the vehicle of Prana. These three Upadhis can be separated by an Adept without killing himself."
http://www. which attaches itself to the latter. It must also be noticed that the Vignanamaya Kosa is considered to be distinct from the Manomaya Kosa.The Secret Doctrine by H. P. || Buddhi. § Sthula-Upadhi.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. It will also be seen that the Fourth principle is included in the third Kosa (Sheath). Page]] 158 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. We may also here point out to our readers that the classification mentioned in the last column is.
[[Vol. as a division is made after death between the lower part of the mind. which is but an energy of the mind. which has a closer affinity with the fourth principle than with the sixth. the best and simplest. for all practical purposes.05. bk 1. in fact. 1. † "Life. Blavatsky. the basis for the higher spiritual individuality of man." ‡ The astral body or Linga Sarira.

during the last three it gradually returns to its first ethereal form: it is spiritualised. Our Earth. Blavatsky. that of a Dhyan Chohanic Host.even the latter having to develop and continue its further evolution through man. (See diagram No. Humanity. Moreover. Everything in the metaphysical as in the physical Universe is septenary. as every adept in cis-Himalayan or trans-Himalayan India.") 3.
or invisible. there is in reality but very little difference. of the Patanjali. These globes are formed by a process which the Occultists call the "rebirth of planetary chains (or rings). passes through all the forms and kingdoms during the first Round and through all the human shapes during the two following Rounds. may not have clearly understood. each globe has to transfer its life and energy to another planet.05. is credited with six companion globes. in Theosophical writings.or "obscuration. the eternal and immortal synthesis. if they have.2003 03:31:04]
. or. 4. 1. accept the Taraka Raja classification in principle and theory whatever classification he resorts to for practical and occult purposes. 3. after verse 6 of this commentary.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. the teaching is briefly thus: -1. the Aryasanga or the Mahayana schools. 2 infra. Up to this fourth Life-Cycle.htm (7 von 16) [06. during the fourth it settles and hardens.our present Round. Like the grub which becomes chrysalis and butterfly. instead of entering upon a certain time of rest -. "The Moon and the Earth. and our three Upadhis. it matters very little whether one speaks of the three Upadhis with their three aspects and Atma. has to become a Raja Yogi. so to say. will be ever tending to reassume its primeval form. 1).theosociety. as the visible representative of its invisible superior fellow globes. therefore. every planet. P. Arrived on our Earth at the commencement of the Fourth in the present series of life-cycles and races.) The evolution of life proceeds on these seven globes or bodies from the 1st to the 7th in Seven ROUNDS or Seven Cycles." When the seventh and last Round of one of such rings has been entered upon. MAN is the first form that appears thereon.begins to die out. Man tends
http://www. During the three Rounds to come. like the globe on which it lives. This will be explained in Book II. The "planetary" dissolution (pralaya) is at hand.The Secret Doctrine by H. (See Diagram No. its "lords" or "principles" (see diagram No. Thus. whether visible
[[Vol. During the first three. Hence every sidereal body. it is referred to as "humanity" only for lack of a more appropriate term. he must. being preceded only by the mineral and vegetable kingdoms -. through seven Rounds. bk 1. and its hour has struck. Its Humanity develops fully only in the Fourth -. it forms and consolidates. the highest or first globe "A. Vol 1. the doctrine of the septenary chains of worlds in the Solar Kosmos." as in their previous Rounds -. has to live. 2." followed by all the others down to the last. and the additional three divisions. or calls them the "seven principles." For the benefit of those who may not have read. Man. or rather that which becomes man. Page]] 159 THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF THE EGO. as have the others. sec 6a
The student will now be better prepared to see that between the three Upadhis of the Raja Yoga and its Atma. Atma.

" (Extract from the Teacher's letters on various topics. But the two works already mentioned. no more need be said of it here. The first root-race. etc. for it to be necessary to enter at length upon its merits here. [[Footnote(s)]] ------------------------------------------------* We are not concerned with the other Globes in this work except incidentally.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. Moreover it seems. Blavatsky." or the terrestrial).. a little too materialistic. like every other atom in the Universe.GOD. the seventh. "MAN. but unfortunately misunderstood. and that it has led many Theosophists and lay-readers to form an erroneous conception of the Secret Eastern Doctrines. to translate some visions in and from the Astral Light. "Beginning so early as with the 2nd round.e. perhaps. Hence the reader must not wonder if our Volumes contradict these earlier descriptions in several particulars. a plant. They commence with the Ethereal and end with the spiritual on the double line of physical and moral evolution -. the "globe round. The process changes
[[Vol. and even to the outside world. (One is a "planetary round" from Globe A to Globe G. bk 1. and contains some excellent pages of a philosophical character. . Every life-cycle on Globe D (our Earth)* is composed of seven root-races. It is an excellent book. Vol 1. Page]] 160 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. This work also speaks of the evolution of the early Races of men on Earth. of which there are seven classes or Hierarchies. . But so far it is only an interesting little mystical romance.
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. on globe B and C. both of which treat of subjects from the occult doctrine. the first "men" on earth (irrespective of form) were the progeny of the "celestial men.theosociety. P.
entirely from the second round -. Evolution proceeds already on quite a different plan. was an attempt to present the archaic doctrine from a more ideal standpoint. the other." called rightly in Indian philosophy the "Lunar Ancestors" or the Pitris.from the beginning of the terrestrial round to its close. It has failed in its mission.htm (8 von 16) [06.. to render some teachings partly gathered from a Master's thoughts. It is only during the 1st round that (heavenly) man becomes a human being on globe A (rebecomes) a mineral. . sec 6a
to become a God and then -. But this does not alter the fact that it contains some mistaken notions. "Esoteric Buddhism" is too well known in Theosophical circles. because the conditions required for a correct translation of these visions were not present. 1. As all this will be sufficiently explained in the following sections and in Book II. need particular notice. .) 5. and I advise you to say nothing before the time for saying it has come.but you have learned prudence . and has done still more excellent work. 6. i.The Secret Doctrine by H. This is very well described in "Esoteric Buddhism" and needs no further elucidation for the time being. an animal.05." which came later.

we are not in the Fifth Round." This was worse than the riddle of the Sphinx! Students of Occultism subjected their brains to the wildest work of speculation." But it is simply this: every "Round" brings about a new development and even an entire change in the mental.htm (9 von 16) [06. it was held. . they were accused of inconsistency. bk 1. 1. To this an "apocalyptic answer" was returned by another Teacher: -. fantastic.05. 1. Mistakes have now to be checked by the original teachings and corrected. "No.which deals with the periodical "obscurations" and successive "Rounds" of the Globes along their circular chains.rather incomprehensible to western minds -. the other is decidedly too idealistic."Esoteric Buddhism" especially. that it becomes impossible to proceed with the present work without special mention of these two earlier volumes. on this scale of Evolution." in another place he seemed to say that we were in the Fifth. . for both have a number of admirers -." But they were simply allowing the speculations to go on. Thence it follows that those persons who.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. were born the first perplexities and misconceptions.
metaphor and allegory. P. From the doctrine -. belonged psychically. And as the Masters kept as silent as the stony Sphinx herself. like Confucius and Plato. sec 6a
[[Vol. Page]] 162 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. "FifthRounders. and the evolution of the human Monad especially. The time has arrived for the explanation of some matters in this direction.Wisdom incarnate -. Gautama Buddha. mentally and spiritually to the higher planes of evolution. and is. could not understand the "fallacy" of talking about "fifth and sixth Rounders" in our Fourth Round.The Secret Doctrine by H." Those who knew that a Round was preceded and followed by a long Pralaya. were in our Fourth Round as the average man will be in the Fifth Round. a pause of rest which created an impassable gulf between two Rounds until the time came for a renewed cycle of life. whose mankind is destined to find itself. In their conceit and arrogance. Plato and some other great philosophers and minds. immensely higher than is our present humanity. Vol 1. differ so essentially in these two books and in other Theosophical works written independently by beginners.
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." How could it be? One Master taught and affirmed that there were such "Fifth-Rounders" even now on Earth.theosociety." . though they presage it. but Fifth Round men have been coming in for the last few thousand years. who are called Fifth
http://www. spiritual and physical constitution of man. Similarly Gautama Buddha -. psychic. at times." and "discrepancies. "contradiction. Page]] 161 A RE-ADJUSTMENT OF FACTS. To this day it is evident that the latter have utterly failed to understand the meaning of the term "Fifth and Sixth Rounders. was a Sixth-Rounder. as in their habit of materializing every metaphysical conception and term without allowing any margin for Eastern
[[Vol. in order to teach a lesson which the Western mind sorely needs. and though understood to say that mankind was yet "in the Fourth Round."A few drops of rain do not make a Monsoon. For a considerable time they tried to outvie OEdipus and reconcile the two statements. the Orientalists have made a jumble of the Hindu exoteric philosophy.was still higher and greater than all the men we have mentioned. all these principles evoluting on an ever ascending scale. and the Theosophists were now doing the same with regard to esoteric teachings. Blavatsky. If one of the said works has too pronounced a bias toward materialistic science. One of such has reference to the "Fifth-" and even "Sixth-Rounders.

there are only two other worlds of our chain which are visible. Neither A. . to put them forward with all their appropriate qualifications . the confession that "half a loaf is better than no bread" was but too often misunderstood and hardly appreciated as it ought to have been. For the reply was: "Mars. P. when the complicated facts of an entirely unfamiliar science are being presented to untrained minds for the first time. It was asked: "What planets. But the blame for it is to be attached as much to the vagueness and incompleteness of the Master's answer as to the question of the learner itself. . etc. . still it is calculated to lead many a beginner into erroneous conceptions. . besides Mercury. (1) They were due to the necessity under which the teachers laboured of giving what were considered as "evasive answers": the questions being too persistently pressed to be left unnoticed. while Buddha and Sankaracharya are termed Sixth Rounders. (2) This position notwithstanding. . sec 6a
Rounders. and four other planets of which astronomy knows nothing. It is a trifling one. so the sixth may be revised and perfected. while. . pronounced at the time "evasive" -.that a few drops of rain do not make the Monsoon." as it should have been. Thence again the concealed wisdom of the remark. . allegorically.
for such mistakes. . then of course the answer was likely to be misunderstood." As the author of the remark was himself. and especially is this the case with study. B. generally followed. aim at impressing every fresh idea on the memory by provoking the perplexity it at last relieves. There were several reasons
[[Vol. . . But as the mistaken notions of the earlier editions were corrected in the annotations of the fifth edition. and his better knowledge of modern astronomical speculations than of archaic doctrines led him quite naturally. in connection with which the traditional methods of teaching. . and as unconsciously to himself." (Esoteric Buddhism. on the other hand. nor YZ are known nor can they be seen through
http://www.htm (10 von 16) [06." And now the truth of the remark made in "Esoteric Buddhism" by its author will be fully apparent: -"It is impossible..05. to commit a few mistakes of detail rather than of any "broad rule. "an untrained mind" in Occultism. . and (b) the erroneous statement that two of the superior Globes of the terrestrial chain were two of our well-known planets: "besides the Earth . As a result thereof gratuitous speculations were sometimes indulged in by the European lay-chelas. bk 1. Blavatsky. . though they presage it.) This was a great mistake. as he says. Page]] 163 LIKE QUESTIONS. which was equally vague and indefinite.theosociety.The Secret Doctrine by H. We must be content to take the broad rules first and deal with the exceptions afterwards. they could only be partially answered. his own inferences.2003 03:31:04]
. Mars and Mercury.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. Vol 1. Among such were (a) the "Mystery of the Eighth Sphere" in its relation to the Moon. 136. of those known to ordinary science. instead of the "Solar System of Worlds." One such will now be noticed. 1. p. belong to our system of worlds?" Now if by "System of Worlds" our terrestrial chain or "string" was intended in the mind of the querist. LIKE ANSWERS. and abnormal developments.

to answer and explain certain points not touched upon. (2. evidence.htm (11 von 16) [06. . Copies of all the letters ever received or sent.e. the writer. Page]] 164 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.let alone lay students -. Blavatsky. 1." But neither Mars nor Mercury belong to our chain. because no figures and numbers could be given to the public. sec 6a
physical means however perfected." "there are other and innumerable Manvantaric chains of globes which bear intelligent Beings both in and outside our solar system. and the true nature of the planets given out as they now are. or do not relieve -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. . along with the other planets. Mars and Mercury. Sinnett's "Teacher. with the exception of a few private ones -. and "the four other planets. if it is urged that this might have been explained earlier. the answer comes that: "it was not found expedient to do so at the time. like every hitherto discovered planet (or those still to be discovered).. are all. Mercury. in the beginning. the representatives on our plane of such chains.Amen."in which there was no teaching" the Master says -. they do. nor those discovered in modern times." they bear
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a relation to Earth of which no master or high Occultist will ever speak. As distinctly stated in one of the numerous letters of Mr. in her ignorance of English and her fear of saying too much. They are. She takes the whole blame for it upon herself in any and every case. per se. not even as an accepted chela -.. with or without the additional evidence furnished by modern Astronomy. etc. though still very uncertain. . no upper globes of any chain in the Solar System. septenary Units in the great host of "chains" of our system. i.* As to Mars. then. the answer comes: -.could expect to have the secret teachings explained to him thoroughly and completely. Physical Science can supply corroborative. etc. But it is impossible for her to allow students to remain any longer under erroneous impressions.) That
http://www.The Secret Doctrine by H. and all are as visible as their upper globes are invisible.05. (b) No companion planets from A to Z. . The author of "Esoteric Buddhism" understood it well when he wrote that such are "the traditional modes of teaching . If it is still argued that certain expressions in the Teacher's letters were liable to mislead. it is more than likely that notwithstanding the many annotations on these copies. so it was. the moon. by provoking the perplexity" . that the theory broached is impossible. for figures and numbers are the key to the esoteric system. neither the ancient ones. before he had irretrievably pledged himself to the Brotherhood and passed through at least one initiation. or to believe that the fault lies with the esoteric system.2003 03:31:04]
. but only as regards heavenly bodies on the same plane of materiality as our objective Universe." It had been declared from the first and has been repeatedly asserted since that (1st) no Theosophist.
[[Vol.theosociety. can be seen. as it would have opened the way to a series of additional questions which could never be answered on account of their esoteric nature. Venus and Jupiter.are with the writer. Vol 1. and thus would only become embarrassing.* Let it now be distinctly stated. As it was her duty. much less explain the nature. may have bungled the information given." This is plain: (a) Astronomy as yet knows nothing in reality of the planets. bk 1. P.

..htm (12 von 16) [06. Again. where those reasons are given). . Blavatsky. Both came in due time."
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http://www. who was as right in postulating this truism.which were perhaps his six brothers. 569). here are more extracts from another letter written by the same authority. sec 6a
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* In this same letter the impossibility is distinctly stated: -. . . "Try to understand that you are putting me questions pertaining to the highest initiation. and verbatim extracts from these are now given. . and the Upanishads of the Vedas and even in the Puranas. . Tome XC. P. . feeling sure that the speculation about Mars and Mercury was a mistake. it is because of the reasons . Phobos keeps a too short periodic time. . . and Mercury just beginning to get out of it. . . . . .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. . with or without night-caps. the writer.theosociety. .The Secret Doctrine by H. that I can give you (only) a general view. . . . ." wrote one of the Teachers to the author of "Esoteric Buddhism. ".2003 03:31:04]
. as independent of the Earth's sidereal lords and superiors as you are independent of the 'principles' of Daumling (Tom Thumb) -. . . . . . This time it is in answer to some objections laid before the Teachers. (vide footnote supra. but that I dare not nor will I enter upon details . As remarked long ago by Laplace and now by Faye (see COMPTES RENDUS. is no satellite at all. and therefore there 'must exist some defect in the mother idea of the theory' as Faye justly observes. knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men. . ." Again. . If neither Mercury nor Venus have satellites. . bk 1.
what was revealed was merely the esoteric lining of that which is contained in almost all the exoteric Scriptures of the world-religions -. p. . When the present work was commenced. . . and also because Mars has two satellites to which he has no right. 'Gratification of curiosity is the end of knowledge for some men. It is quite correct that Mars is in a state of obscuration at present. Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.' was said by Bacon. . .' You can never impress it too profoundly on the minds of those to whom you impart some of the esoteric teachings. . . . and tracing limits to that which is to be given out at one time. . .pre-eminently in the Brahmanas. Remember: -'. 1. . as those who were familiar with it before him were right in hedging off WISDOM from Knowledge. . Phobos. . the supposed INNER satellite. .. . . . .05. . They are based upon extremely scientific. Vol 1. applied to the Teachers by letter for explanation and an authoritative version. . and even this is very incomplete and fragmentary. . . . . Page]] 165 AN AUTHORITATIVE LETTER. You might add that Venus is in her last Round. both (Mars and Mercury) are septenary chains. It was a small portion of what is divulged far more fully now in the present volumes.

are on the same layer of differentiated matter. Blavatsky. reasonings about the advisability of trying to reconcile the Esoteric theories with the speculations of Modern Science. who know how to direct their mental vision and to transfer their consciousness -. as Globes. whom we call adepts. 'To such a string our Earth belongs." How then was it that they could not be seen? The answer was: -". even with the help of the best earthly telescopes. when you have studied thoroughly 'the music of the Spheres. and were written by a young Theosophist as a warning against the "Secret Doctrine" and in reference to the same subject. to our present generation. are able to speak with authority on such subjects. . . . Do not give out the great Truths that are the inheritance of the future Races.no progress can be really achieved. is at the bottom of the arc of descent. .theosociety. that which is outside our world of matter. .' This ought to have shown plainly that the other planets were also 'strings' or CHAINS.' then only will you become quite free to share your knowledge with those with whom it is safe to do so.The Secret Doctrine by H. What I wrote was 'The minor Pralaya concerns only our little STRINGS OF GLOBES. . Hence it only stands to reason that the globes which overshadow our Earth must be on different and superior planes. . bk 1. Our planet (like all those we see) is adapted to the peculiar state of its human stock. . Unless less trouble is taken to reconcile the irreconcileable -that is to say. . . .physical and psychic both --
[[Vol. NEGLECTED.) . where the matter of our perceptions exhibits itself in its grossest form. 1. Vol 1. . as taught from the first. be prudent. Meanwhile. Page]] 166 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. . Were psychic and spiritual teachings more fully understood. .htm (13 von 16) [06.
to other planes of being. . the metaphysical and spiritual sciences with physical or natural philosophy. . the Jovians. Those alone. . that state which enables us to see with our naked eye the sidereal bodies which are co-essential with our terrene plane and substance." It becomes patent why we could not perceive. Our Globe. they are in CO-ADUNITION but not IN CONSUBSTANTIALITY WITH OUR EARTH and thus pertain to quite another state of consciousness. .
futile. 1. In short. He had declared that if there were such companion Earths "they must be only a wee bit less material than our globe.' those chords that run along the sounding-board of Kosmos. it would become next to impossible to even imagine such an incongruity. And they tell us plainly: -"Lead the life necessary for the acquisition of such knowledge and powers. Do not attempt to unveil the secret of being and non-being to those unable to see
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[[Vol. . just as their respective inhabitants. Whenever your are able to attune your consciousness to any of the seven chords of 'Universal Consciousness. . vibrating from one Eternity to another. Page]] 167 PRICELESS ADVICE. differing as they do in degree but being the same in kind. If he (meaning the objector) would perceive even the dim silhouette of one of such 'planets' on the higher planes. . he has to first throw off even the thin clouds of the astral matter that stands between him and the next plane.2003 03:31:04]
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to agree upon a nomenclature before going any further.. in which the terms had to be invented and words coined. ." It is to be regretted that few of us have followed the wise advice. .'let us imagine THAT OUR EARTH IS ONE OF A GROUP OF SEVEN PLANETS OR MAN-BEARING WORLDS. To a correspondent who called a "Round" a "World-Ring. "Try to solve the problem of 777 incarnations. and are all septenary. in each of the seven strings of which dwelleth the Spirit.htm (14 von 16) [06. strongly. .
http://www. . . "If we are right.and sub-cosmic mysteries remain a dreamland for those who can neither see. many mistakes. To all the queries relating to figures. unfamiliar. " Notwithstanding this agreement. nor yet believe that others can. . .05. for such is the fate of every truth with which men are. many a jewel of wisdom. and the results were -. the "Rings" very often became "Rounds. ." and led to similar mistakes in "Man. . Blavatsky. and above all take care what those who learn from you believe in.The Secret Doctrine by H. . . and that many a priceless pearl. Let rather the planetary chains and other super.) Now the life-impulse reaches A. or rather that which is destined to become A. The 'World-Ring' is correct. . . . etc.' wrote the same Master to his two 'lay chelas. and vice versa. yet if you should work out the problem by yourself.never-ceasing perplexity and mistakes. ." But they never were so worked out. owing to this confusion. . or divulge the number of isolated fractions . Soul and Astral body of the Kosmos. ." From the first the Master had written -"Not being permitted to give you the whole truth." This in answer to the questions. Vol 1. . The Races even were occasionally mixed up with the "Rounds" and "Rings.' " In these early letters. whose shell only has now fallen into the hands of Modern Science. (The SEVEN planets are the sacred planets of antiquity." etc.the lyre of the radiant god. . . . . . Be prudent. . A Round we are agreed to call the passage
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of a monad from Globe A to Globe G or Z. .theosociety. . the reply was.' as he called the author of 'Esoteric Buddhism' and another gentleman. " 'Let us imagine. . has been cast to an enemy unable to understand its value and who has turned round and rent us." and the "Rounds" life-cycles. . . lest by deceiving themselves they deceive others . Though I am obliged to withhold information . I am unable to satisfy you. crept into the earliest teachings. Advise Mr. . . then the total existence prior to the man-period is 637.2003 03:31:04]
. his co-student for some time -. P. and which so far is but cosmic dust (a "laya centre") . 1. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08. . prudent and wise. . we say. etc. as yet. ." the Teacher wrote: "I believe this will lead to a further confusion. bk 1. . . it will be my duty to tell you so.

involving figures and numbers which are rarely permitted to be broadly used.
produce certain results). geometrical magnitudes having length and breadth." p.
[[Vol. This is perfectly natural. like the adumbrations of great truths. from the East . or Man -. again. the other three remain no better than surface sciences. least of all by fully conscious spiritual impulses. Then. Among these were questions on such problems as no MASTER. "YajnaVidya" (the performance of religious rites in order to
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. In olden times it used to be divulged only at the Initiation and along with the most sacred figures of the cycles." or the true Spiritual and Divine wisdom. P. of producing visible effects. Now.out of the seven branches of Knowledge mentioned in the Puranas -. -. Vol 1. 46). "Guhya-Vidya. thus divulging to the world the most time-honoured and archaic of the mysteries of the ancient college-temples. "Maha-Vidya.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-08.namely." in which he put forward a multiplicity of questions.it is only the last one. "Why this preaching of our doctrines. all this uphill work and swimming in adversum flumen? Why should the West . which can throw absolute and final light upon the teachings of the three first named. at a time when a few bits of information were sparingly given out in answer to letters written by the author of "Esoteric Buddhism.The Secret Doctrine by H. sec 6a
Even the teaching about the Septenary constitution of the sidereal bodies and of the macrocosm -from which the septenary division of the microcosm. 1888. of mystical incantations. But unless the key to their teachings is furnished by Atma-Vidya. . as the Teacher remarks in a letter to him. limbs." when speaking of the evolution of the Monads ("Esoteric Buddhism. dimly perceived by the most spiritual. To be fully realised. learn . . there are few who are inclined to handle these doctrines only metaphysically. that which can never meet the requirements of the special tastes
http://www. as stated in one of the Theosophical journals. Page]] 169 THE SEVEN BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. .* the revelation of the whole system of Cosmogony had not been contemplated." the science of Mantras and their true rhythm or chanting. bk 1. while details were constantly withheld. ." May. now degenerated into Tantrika worship. Hence only a few of the doctrines were revealed in their broad outlines. but no thickness. both this process and that of the birth of the Globes must be examined far more from their metaphysical aspect than from what one might call a statistical standpoint. but stimulated by instinctual not intellectual causes. nor even thought for one moment possible." the great (Magic) knowledge.has until now been among the most esoteric.05. 1.

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The Secret Doctrine by H. . They pass several times round the whole circle as minerals. Nevertheless. Page]] 171 THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.theosociety. the spiritual monads . 140) that: "For reasons which are not easy for the outsider to divine. As the evolution of the Globes and that of the Monads are so closely interblended. P. Two statements made in "Esoteric Buddhism" must be noticed and the author's opinions quoted.
points solved. and several times as animals.theosociety. the teaching given may be expanded and some obscure
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last. all the lines of evolution. all round the chain. Karma. appears on Globe A. in the first Round. but is not yet in existence. In the diagrams on p. the last. As shown in the double diagram of the human "principles" and the ascending Globes of the worldchains. step by step. some further details may be offered which will also throw light on the history of humanity on our own chain." which commences the formation of Globe A of the Earth Chain. its "principles. This is absolutely necessary in view of the doctrines of Rebirth. that Globe. Fig.* and in dying it transfers successively. One begets the other -. in the Seventh Round on the Lunar chain. 2 represents the "earth-chain" which will be.htm
that Eastern philosophy rejects the Western theological dogma of a newly-created soul for every baby born. while Fig. 172.globes as personalities.theosociety.+ -. as it had done in previous Rounds. instead of falling asleep. one after the other to a new "laya-centre. and so on. as just said. A similar process takes place for each of the Globes of the "lunar chain" one after the other. and was
http://www. Page]] 172 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. There must be a limited number of Monads evolving and growing more and more perfect through their assimilation of many successive personalities. To prevent future misconceptions. as being as unphilosophical as it is impossible in the economy of Nature. the first. as is everything in this Universe of differentiation and finiteness. quits Globe A. But. The timespaces between the appearances of these hierarchies on any one Globe are so adjusted that when Class 7. let us begin at the beginning. begins to die (to go into its planetary pralaya). has just passed on to Globe B. when Class 7. then. the Globes of the Earth-chain being further marked by a cross -. the progeny of that of the Moon. 1.htm (2 von 19) [06. The seven Globes of each chain are distinguished in their cyclic order by the letters A to G. and merit. Let us follow.. in every new Manvantara. and the gradual return of the human Monad to its source -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. The general outline of the process by which the successive planetary chains are formed has just been given.05. each forming a fresh Globe of the "earth-chain.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. the order of their appearance on planet A. Now. etc.http://www. they are still finite. Thus." or life-elements and energy.2003 03:31:09]
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owing to the evolution of humanity itself." There are many other minor ones. each giving birth to the corresponding globe of the "earth-chain. since the second class." Further. Thus the Monads of Class 2 reach the incipient human stage only in the Second Round. the last of the "lunar chain. But at this point -. The result of this is. find themselves so far behind that they will reach the human stage only at the close of the seventh and
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on the same plane of perception as our Earth.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. THE CHILD OF THE MOON. and so on up to the middle of the Fourth Round.e. but with these we are not concerned at present. there is the individual pralaya of each Globe.htm (3 von 19) [06.2003 03:31:09]
.theosociety." These are the three chief pralayas or "destruction periods. the planetary Pralaya. Monads in the human stage of development." into the Nirvana
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which awaits them between the two chains. Page]] 173 THE EARTH.05. and henceforward the number of "human" Monads. on each planet. But Globe A of the lunar chain is not fully "dead" till the first Monads of the first class have passed from Globe G or Z. arriving later. i. that it is only the first class of Monads which attains the human state of development during the first Round. the first class or Hierarchy of Monads from the Lunar chain incarnate upon it in the lowest kingdom.Pralaya at the close of the "Age of Brahma.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. when seven Rounds are completed. is complete. 1. as humanity and life pass on to the next.theosociety.
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last Round. 2. even more reticent in giving out their "Knowledge" than are the Hindus. and must be enlightened as to their nature. and to become men. It is they. and dies.theosociety. but will form the humanity of a future Manvantara and be rewarded by becoming "Men" on a higher chain altogether.http://www. the mystics of the Lao-Tze sect and the ascetic monks of Kioto. Page]] 174 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. The Man's lower "principles" are disintegrated in time and are used by Nature again for the formation of new human principles. His "higher principles.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. or those who come behind them.theosociety. and finally evolve their shadows at the beginning of the Fourth Round for the second class. They are those who first reach the human form (if there can be any form in the realm of the almost subjective) on Globe A in the first Round. The most developed Monads (the Lunar Gods or "Spirits. without trespassing upon the highest mysteries. filmy. therefore.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. and rudimentary forms. This is one of the "seven mysteries of the Moon. They will. and assimilate. who lead and represent the human element during the second and third Rounds. the nature of the newly formed chain.05. The seven "mysteries" are called by the Japanese Yamaboosis. and the same process takes place in the disintegration and formation of Worlds. whose function it is to pass in the first Round through the whole triple cycle of the mineral. Analogy is thus the surest guide to the comprehension of the Occult teachings. which corresponds to the "Nirvana" and states of rest intervening between two chains." corresponding in the development of a planetary chain to the cycling Monads. But this accounts for the difference in the races. vegetable. in India. The latter lives through his life-cycle." called. To this there is but one solitary exception.
Buddhist ascetics and Initiates are. The Monadic Host may be roughly divided into three great classes: -1. Those Monads that are the first to reach the human stage during the three and a half Rounds.htm (4 von 19) [06. not be men on this chain. of which we shall speak farther on." and it is now revealed. and animal kingdoms in their most ethereal." and this is a clear proof of how little any
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Metaphysically speaking. or the partial or total obscuration of matter -. the human stage at all during this cycle or Round. (See "Gods.as in the case of external evolution. differing only in its incarnations.too near the ABSOLUTE to permit of any correlation with anything on a lower plane -. skipping the first two planes -." It is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening
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3. Why then.") The MONAD emerges from its state of spiritual and intellectual unconsciousness.05.endowed at best with instinct and consciousness on quite a different plane -. and which will not reach.htm
European language is adapted to express these subtle distinctions. throughout its ever succeeding cycles of partial or total obscuration of spirit.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.htm (5 von 19) [06. It is not of this world or plane. and may be compared only to an indestructible star of divine light and fire. call them "Men" at all? Because there is no other term in any Western language which approximately conveys the idea intended. but a journey of the "pilgrim-soul" through various states of not only matter but Self-consciousness and self-perception." But any attempt to preserve metaphysical accuracy of language in the use of such a tongue as the English would necessitate at least three extra volumes of this work." thinking entities. or of perception from apperception." from the "mineral" monad up to the time when that monad blossoms forth by evolution into the DIVINE MONAD.http://www." The same difficulty of language is met with in describing the "stages" through which the Monad passes. But all the time it is still one and the same Monad. but the evolution of the internal or real MAN is purely spiritual. however they differed in form and intellection from ourselves.as it ascends into the realms of mental spirituality. Page]] 175 THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE MONADS. the Monads which are retarded. either in form or nature. by reason of Karmic impediments. or descends into the depths of materiality. The laggards. But in reality they were. and would entail an amount of verbal repetition which would be wearisome in the extreme. it may be asked. It stands to reason that a MONAD cannot either progress or develop. which has in its turn an appropriate smaller plane for every "form. just as in the case of the lower kingdoms. The word "Men" at least indicates that these beings were "MANUS.it gets direct into the plane of Mentality. Monads and Atoms. in respect of spirituality and intellection. and. But there is no plane in the whole universe with a wider margin.theosociety. or a wider field of action in its almost endless gradations of perceptive and apperceptive qualities. It is now no more a passage of the impersonal Monad through many and various forms of matter -. than this plane. To return to "Esoteric Buddhism. It stands to reason that these "Men" did not resemble the men of to-day. save one exception which will be spoken of elsewhere as already promised.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. thrown down on to our [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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http://www. but only his prototype or dimensionless image from the astral regions.theosociety. for as said. This process makes a halt in its stages at the Third. "There are seven kingdoms. indeed several waves of evolution. prepares the way for the vegetable development. as soon as this begins. like the "plank. and the mineral impulse passes on to Globe C.e. at the threshold of the Fourth stage. because the human period (of the true physical men to be).. and though belonging in fact to the natural.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. thus forming with the three elemental kingdoms. . but.theosociety. This is evident. when the vegetable development on Globe A is complete and the animal development begins. and. three stages on the objective physical* side -.htm (6 von 19) [06. the second or higher group embraces the kingdoms from vegetable to man.) And so it goes on for three Rounds. "The Mineral Monad" in "Five Years of Theosophy. from full unconsciousness to semiperception." considered as an evoluting energy. the vegetable life-impulse overflows to Globe B. primordial homogeneous matter) to its third degree -. obtain immortality. precede the mineral wave in its progress round the spheres" (ibid).05. Then finally comes the human life-impulse on Globe A.htm
between the mineral epoch on Globe A.i. It is for the latter to cling to it." (Page 49. Then. 1. they yet would be more correctly described as sub-natural evolution. there are processes of evolution which precede the mineral kingdom. when it becomes. on the plane of the natural evolution. the ten.from the first stage of differentiation of (from) Mulaprakriti (or rather Pradhana. and thus a wave of evolution. Page]] 176 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.these are the (first or preliminary) seven links of the evolutionary chain. And now we have to quote from another article. . and the man-epoch. or nascent centres of forces -." "Preliminary" because they are preparatory. But in truth the "Man" on Globe A during the First Round is no Man. and thus partaking of its divine nature. when it slackens. at the Fourth Round.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.2003 03:31:09]
. the mineral kingdom thus forming the central or turning point in the degrees of the "Monadic Essence.* that: "The full development of the
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Boundless and Impartite. which will lead it eventually to the tenth (counting from the lowest upwards) of the Sephirothal tree. corresponding to the highest must be the lowest. "None whatever.) Therefore it becomes evident why that which is pertinently called in Esoteric Buddhism "Wave of Evolution. call the "Individual Monads" of men.
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. answer in the Cosmic differentiation to the worlds of Form and Matter from the Super-Spiritual to the Archetypal. as the spiritual Monad is One. Thus. Physically or constitutionally the mineral monad differs. in our ignorance. which precede the Mineral (see diagram on p. nor is it quite the Monas of the Peripatetics." ("Five Years of Theosophy. is yet quite subjective to us on our plane. corresponding to the Sephirothal Crown (or upper triad) there are the three elemental Kingdoms. so below". Everything in the Universe follows analogy.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.and man-"impulse. SO BELOW." nevertheless.theosociety.htm
Sephirothal number. and thus enter on the first step of a new septenary ladder of evolution. that "physical side. 277 in Five Years of Theosophy).05. the material to the spiritual. with a corresponding dissipation of concrete organism -. "to the atom or molecule as existing in the scientific conception at present. once classed among polygastric infusoria. at its Fourth cycle or Round.
http://www. nevertheless. animal. and which." and mineral-. "As above. IS THE LAW. of course." In short. which is neither physical nor can its constitution be rendered by chemical symbols and elements.up to Nirvana. the Crown. using the language of the Kabalists.
evolution. It can neither be compared with the microscopic organism. It is at this point that begins: -"A descent of spirit into matter equivalent to an ascent in physical
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* "Physical" here means differentiated for cosmical purposes and work. vegetable-.http://www. if objective to the apperception of beings from other planes." stops at the door of our Globe. It is at this point that the Cosmic Monad (Buddhi) will be wedded to and become the vehicle of the Atmic Ray. Man is the microcosm of the Universe. 1. and now regarded as vegetable. That which takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on the Cosmic plane. a re-ascent from the deepest depths of materiality (the mineral) towards its status quo ante. from the human monad." p. Now what is a "Monad?" And what relation does it bear to an Atom? The following reply is based upon the explanations given in answer to these questions in the above-cited article: "The Mineral Monad.

http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. and the Occultists.(not perception." The atom. distinguish the progressive stages of the evolution of the concrete from the abstract by terms of which the "Mineral. It would be very misleading to imagine a Monad as a separate Entity trailing its slow way in a distinct path through the lower Kingdoms. and. Atma. and thus of determining all spiritual and physical phenomena.
Essence" begins to imperceptibly differentiate towards individual consciousness in the Vegetable Kingdom.htm (8 von 19) [06. 1. Leibnitz conceived of the Monads as elementary and indestructible units endowed with the power of giving and receiving with respect to other units. and in the higher animals comes almost to the point. Essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral. But since the Spiritual Soul. The ocean (of matter) does not divide into its potential and constituent drops until the sweep of the life-impulse reaches the evolutionary stage of man-birth. if divorced from the latter (Atma) could have no existence.being at the opposite point of the circle -. it is the spiritual essence which vivifies them in their degrees of differentiation. yet differs in the scale of progression. is not a particle of something.
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. 1. as represented in the ordinary scientific hypothesis. vegetable. a sequential manifestation of the one Universal Monas. Now the Monadic. The term merely means that the tidal wave of spiritual evolution is passing through that arc of its circuit. as correctly defined by Leibnitz. while accepting this thought for convenience sake.theosociety. alone. As the Monads are uncompounded things. Page]] 178 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Instead of saying a "Mineral Monad. in short. . The tendency towards segregation into individual Monads is gradual.05. (etc. Vegetable. which together with nerve. no being. which differentiates every atom. properly speaking. would of course have been to call it "the Monad manifesting in that form of Prakriti called the Mineral Kingdom. destined after aeons to blossom as a man. not to its highest spiritual vivifying Principle. though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the Deva Kingdom. animated by a psychic something.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. Animal.not the atomic aggregation. But it is a concrete manifestation of the Universal Energy which itself has not yet become individualized.and from it proceed the countless physical atoms. that the Monad of a Humboldt dates back to the Monad of an atom of horneblende. Monad" are examples. which is only the vehicle and the substance through which thrill the lower and the higher degrees of intelligence. Page]] 179 THE LUNAR MONADS. The "Monadic
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so the Mineral Monad -. the term "human monad" applies only to the dual soul (AtmaBuddhi). or rather Cosmic. it has thus been called . It is he who invented the term apperception. The Peripatetics applied the word Monas to the whole Kosmos. which properly constitutes the Monad -.is also One -.). and after an incalculable series of transformations flowering into a human being. . Otherwise how could one account for and explain mathematically the evolutionary and spiral progress of the Four Kingdoms? The "Monad" is the combination of the last two "principles" in man.

" just spoken of? The description of the seven classes of Pitris will come later. yet she is certainly older and more fully developed than the
http://www. so in the case of Atma-Buddhi. it may be asked. And should an objector insist that this fact alone is sufficient evidence that the Moon is truly the Earth's satellite on other planes of action. it can be traced in the growth of plants.htm (9 von 19) [06. is the subordinate of her child or dependent upon it. so there are 7 Moons. but now some general explanations may be given. and since the Universe and the Deity which informs it are unthinkable apart from each other. The last word of the mystery is divulged only to the adepts. which causes her to circle in her orbit.http://www. and is very marked in the phenomena of human gestation and conception. The latter being the vehicle of the former. by the cyclic changes in many forms of disease which coincide with the lunar phases. But in every other respect it is the Earth which is the satellite of the Moon.sensation. It must be plain to everyone that they are Monads. though they border too closely on forbidden ground to be treated of fully. a reflection. A few words more of the Moon. Startling as the statement may seem it is not without confirmation from scientific knowledge.2003 03:31:09]
. as Adam-Kadmon.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. since in the materialistic view it is dual and therefore compound. Seeing then that there are 7 Earths. in a very materialised form. the Earth's action on the Moon is confined to the physical attraction. or Mulaprakriti to Parabrahm. are the "Lunar Monads. Buddhi stands in the same relation to Atma. Thus it may be wrong on strictly metaphysical lines to call Atma-Buddhi a MONAD. that physically the Moon revolves round the Earth.
this conception is now taken solely as an astronomical measure of time. which is inferior to the terrestrial chain. notably the Jewish. and vice versa. The importance of the Moon and its influence on the Earth were recognized in every ancient religion. In reality the Moon is only the satellite of the Earth in one respect. Page]] 180 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. just as man's body is." For though
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but rather) -. "The real Sun and the real Moon are as invisible as the real man. though in one sense she is its satellite. the last one alone being visible. viz. yet underlying the husk there can still be recognised the traces of a profoundly philosophical idea. and have been remarked by many observers of psychical and physical phenomena." says an occult maxim. It is evidenced by the tides.05. and not vice versa.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. having ended their life-cycle on the lunar chain. have incarnated on this one. What. the same for the Sun. But as Matter is Spirit. who.theosociety. so far as Science knows. but it may be stated that our satellite is only the gross body of its invisible principles.theosociety.. does to En-Soph. But there are some further details which may be added. who walks round and round her child's cradle keeping watch over the infant. But. the Kabalistic Logos. one may reply by asking whether a mother. 1. whose visible body is called a Maya. expresses the state of the Monadic consciousness through all the Kingdoms up to Man.

org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. concerned with the growth and development into still higher phases of activity of the Monad in conjunction with: -2. for the formation of the three periodical Upadhis. These are the Monadic (or spiritual). will have informed and thereby called to life other laya-centres destined to live and act on a still higher plane of being -. the Pitris themselves.. 1. of the transient into the Eternal and Absolute.05.theosociety.http://www. It now becomes plain that there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary scheme.in the same way will the Terrene "Ancestors" create those who will become their superiors. represented by the Chhayas of the lunar Pitris. It is.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. which in our system are inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point. 1. At the beginning of the human stage of the Fourth Round on this Globe.e. They are the "Monads" who enter on the cycle of evolution on Globe A. Page]] 181 A TRIPLE EVOLUTION IN NATURE.theosociety. as well in the formation of the Earth itself. The Intellectual. and the physical evolutions. For these "Lunar Spirits" have to become "Men" in order that their "Monads" may reach a higher plane of activity and self-consciousness. as in the peopling thereof with human beings. or the Agnishwatta Pitris) the "givers of intelligence and consciousness"* to man and: -3. The "Lunar Monads" or Pitris. the ONE REALITY. D.2003 03:31:09]
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child she watches. These three are the finite aspects or the reflections on the field of Cosmic Illusion of ATMA. et seq. the intellectual.owing to the accumulation of experiences -. the seventh. become in reality man himself. the Moon that plays the largest and most important part. round which Nature has concreted the present physical body. the Microcosm of the great Macrocosm. Each of these three systems has its own laws. This body serves as the vehicle for the "growth" (to use a misleading word) and the transformations through Manas and -. created and informed by the Pitris. they "ooze out" their astral doubles from the "ape-like" forms which they had evolved in Round III. finer form. represented by the Manasa-Dhyanis (the Solar Devas. and is ruled and guided by different sets of the highest Dhyanis or "Logoi. parting with their life-energy. And it is this subtle.htm (10 von 19) [06. or rather three separate schemes of evolution. the plane of the Manasa-Putras. i. In the same way the "Monads" or Egos of the men of the seventh Round of our Earth. These "Monads" or "divine sparks" are thus the "Lunar" ancestors. and who.

The most developed Monads (the lunar) reach the human germ-stage in the first Round.htm (11 von 19) [06. It is the sphere of final evolutionary adjustments. in the first Round.theosociety. the men who will be at the head of all at the end of these Rounds. the progenitors of humanity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. Page]] 182 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. for they have not yet had sufficient touch with the forms
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* Vide CONCLUSION in Part II. become terrestrial. the link between "Spirit" and "Matter" -.e. or first half of the Fourth Round. . Others reach the Human stage only during later Rounds. and it thus forms the fulcrum of the "balance" represented by the whole chain. that. Also it must be borne in mind that the Monads which enter upon the evolutionary cycle upon Globe A. The student hardly needs any further explanation on the part played by the fourth Globe and the fourth Round in the scheme of evolution.e.05. or the Seed-Humanity (Sishta). viz. From the preceding diagrams. and thus become the pioneers of Humanity at the beginning of this.she can only create "senseless forms. i. "Nature.
created by "Nature" to allow of their accumulating experiences through its means. It is the ManasaDhyanis who fill up the gap. And therefore it is. in their turn. the world of Karmic scales.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. and they represent the evolutionary power of Intelligence and Mind. though very ethereal human beings towards the end of the Third Round.will not become men at all during this Manwantara. Let us recapitulate.. third. Hence the matter becomes somewhat complicated." as will be seen in our "ANTHROPOGENESIS.. where the balance is struck which determines the future course of the Monad during the remainder of its incarnations in the cycle.. The door is closed for this Cycle and the balance struck. to Rounds. after the middle point of the Fourth Race in the Fourth Round on our Globe -. of this Book. it will be seen that the fourth member of a series occupies a unique position. the Fourth Round. .. those still occupying animal forms after the middle turning-point of the Fourth Round -.i. the Fourth has no "sister" Globe on the same plane as itself. could never evolve intelligence unaided -. Globes or Races.no more Monads can enter the human kingdom. after this central turning-point has been passed in the Great Cycle. And finally the most retarded of all. 1.http://www. -.2003 03:31:09]
. . are in very different stages of development.by older pioneers. Unlike the others. in the second.in this Round. i.had there been a new soul
http://www.e. remaining on it (the globe) through the "obscuration" period as the seed for future mankind in the Fourth Round. They will reach to the verge of humanity only at the close of the seventh Round to be.
[[Vol.theosociety. For were it otherwise -." the physical evolutionary Power." The "Lunar Monads" cannot progress. mutatis mutandis. which are applicable.htm
now is. ushered into a new chain after pralaya -. the Hall of Justice.

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created for each of the countless milliards of human beings that have passed away." whose Monads are already within the human stage. their last descendants being the anthropoid and other apes." This will be explained in the Books that follow. But this will receive full attention in the next Book.as the culmination of the divine incarnations on Earth. in its absolute totality and awakened condition -. 1. says: -1. the external shapes which covered those divine astral doubles changed and consolidated with every sub-race.theosociety.it would become difficult indeed to provide room for the disembodied "Spirits. "The inner. now concealed. up to our own Fifth Race. The progeny of the Dhyanis (Pitris). and were senseless.
Root Race and every chief sub-race down to the last one of the Seventh in this Round. broadly rendered.http://www. "Every form on earth. These "human presentments" are in truth only the distorted copies of the early humanity.htm (12 von 19) [06.or rather his Monad -. The only exceptions to the rule just stated are the "dumb races. THE OLDEST SON OF THE EARTH. It is the ignorance of the occult tenets and the enforcement of false conceptions under the guise of religious education. and even half descended from man. But they were not complete. and every speck (atom) in Space strives in its efforts towards self-formation to follow the model placed for it in the ' HEAVENLY MAN. in virtue of the fact that these "animals" are later than. 3. he was 'the son like unto his father.05. have all one and the same object -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. Meanwhile man -. Page]] 183 MAN. the MONAD.' Like the lotus.' . whose external shape assumes
http://www. its external and internal growth and development. the form and physical structure of the fauna changing at the same time.has existed on the earth from the very beginning of this Round.theosociety. as the highest physical and ultimate form on this earth. 1. was then (in the beginnings) the external man.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. As the Commentary. .man. as they had to be adapted to the everchanging conditions of life on this globe during the geological periods of its formative cycle." nor could the origin and cause of suffering ever be accounted for.htm
[[Vol. man." 2. But. man. And thus shall they go on changing with every
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theosociety. every transitional form throughout every kingdom of nature during the three preceding Rounds. an animal. matter. ** These "Elementals" will become human Monads.an extinct species of the genus homo. evolving within himself his own ethereal counterpart. in her blind wanderings.that the Stanzas which follow in this Book and Book II speak of the evolution in our Fourth Round only.htm (13 von 19) [06. matter. therefore the anthropoids of our day have not existed at any time since the middle of the Miocene period. After the cycle in which man began to procreate his species after the fashion of the present animal kingdom. a reptile. after which. being senseless.2003 03:31:09]
.at any rate one who has made himself acquainted with "Esoteric Buddhism" -. will appear as those of small insignificant apes -. In the beginning it was that counterpart (astral man) which.
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[[Vol. because imperfect.05. so did the form of man in the beginning evolve from within without. The latter is the cycle of the turning-point. To search for the "Missing Link" is useless. the physical embryo is a plant. to return to the type of their first parent.theosociety. but only by the lower Elementals of their respective realms. our modern races. millions and millions of years hence. 1.** The last human Monad incarnated before the beginning of the 5th
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* Nature never repeats herself. But the monad which becomes human is not the Man. In the present age. the MONAD had passed through. the anthropoids destined to die out in this our race. for we are in the Fourth Round and the Fifth Root-Race.* The cycle of metempsychosis for the human monad is closed. got entangled in the meshes of matter. WHICH THE FIRST?
Root-Race.with the exception of the highest mammals after man.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.no units of either of the kingdoms are animated any longer by monads destined to become human in their next stage. and then into lowest human forms in the fifth Round -. only at the next great planetary Manvantara. journeyed and been imprisoned in. The reader will have to bear in mind -. the black and yellow gigantic Lemuro-Atlantean.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. like all cross breeds.htm
gradually the form of the model within itself. In this Round -. it became the reverse. but are the direct
http://www. they began to show a tendency. in their turn. before it finally becomes man. when. when their monads will be liberated and pass into the astral human forms (or the highest elementals) of the Sixth* and the Seventh Races. The human foetus follows now in its transformations all the forms that the physical frame of man had assumed throughout the three Kalpas (Rounds) during the tentative efforts at Plastic formation around the monad by senseless. or rather their fossils. OR THE APE. To the scientists of the closing sixth Root-race." But this "man" belongs to the fourth Round. Page]] 185 THE MAN.

On the contrary. to close this chapter anent various.http://www. we must refer to a statement in "Esoteric Buddhism" which has produced a very fatal impression upon the minds of many Theosophists. This is a purely Brahmanic. ever creeping onward towards perfection. can be readily traced throughout the ethnological transformation down to our time. now it is that of reformation and evolutionary perfection. while here only the Fourth.05. cranial development. begins to strive onward and to get spiritualized with every new Race and with every fresh cycle.htm (14 von 19) [06.
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. But though the apes descend from man. Finally. it is certainly not the fact that the human Monad. He might learn. etc. he maintains that it is the ape which is evolved from man. a German scientific work is mentioned in a footnote on the same page. Then it was the work of formation. Page]] 186 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.theosociety. and of our human dignity. heroic impulses. with great ingenuity. 1. ever incarnates again in the form of an animal. and finishing her crowning work in man." Moreover. that in the eyes of the educated 'heathen' the spiritual or inner man is one thing.htm
product and creation of "senseless" man.
having reached its lowest depths. the reader is referred "to the Brahmins. This subject had already been touched upon in "Isis Unveiled" twelve years ago as plainly as was then possible. Buddhistic and Kabalistic philosophy. On pp. The Hindus give a divine origin to the apes and monkeys because the men of the Third Race were gods from another plane who had become "senseless" mortals. tables. The Book is copiously illustrated with diagrams. It asserts that the gradual debasement and degradation of man. the Author. but unavoidable misconceptions. 278-279. referring to the progress of organisms on the Globes. nobility of sentiments. If we may judge of the future by the actual Present. she models and remodels as she proceeds.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. One unfortunate sentence from the work just referred to is constantly brought forward to prove the materialism of the doctrine. 48. He shows that. as one portion has already degenerated into apes. For then he (the reader) would perhaps learn -. has to avail herself of the material at hand. so the civilized man of the present day will at last. regularity of feature. it certainly does seem possible that so unspiritual and materialistic a body should end as Simia rather than as Seraphs. a bastard branch engrafted on their own stock before the final perfection of the latter. that Darwin was wholly mistaken in tracing man back to the ape. 5th Edition. mankind were morally and physically the types and prototypes of our present Race.were the Brahman to judge him worthy of an explanation -.that the Hindu sees in the ape but what Manu desired he should: the transformation of species most directly connected with that of the human family. the great combination of physical correlations of forces. in the beginning. under the action of the inevitable law of necessity. presents him alone as a fit tabernacle for the overshadowing of the divine Spirit. says that "the mineral kingdom will no more develop the
http://www. Therefore the student must take care not to see contradiction where there is none. and his terrestrial physical casket another. It says that a Hanoverian scientist had recently published a Book entitled "Ueber die Auflosung der Arten durch Naturliche Zucht-wahl. is meant. On p. if he would know the reason of the regard they have for the monkeys. or our present Round.theosociety. by their beauty of form. And. That physical nature." in which he shows. and grandeur of ideal conception. be also succeeded by like descendants.

nor will they ever admit. It is really with surprise that we have ascertained the fact that "Esoteric Buddhism" was so little understood by some Theosophists. Sinnett's "teacher") which would contradict these lines. But one has only to turn to p. is at an end till the next Manvantara.htm (15 von 19) [06. Of that which has taken place. if we would talk about these matters at all -." Whether this sentence renders literally the thought of the author. Thus to those who confront the Occultists with these lines from the above-named volume: "It is enough to show that we may as reasonably -.conceive a life-impulse giving birth to mineral form.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. bye-laws of Evolution. With the exception of some higher anthropoids.and that we must. Thus there is a lull. It can never be too often repeated. before the new crop of candidates appears on this Globe at the beginning of the next cycle. till it received an impulse. and this is why.htm
vegetable .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. Besides which the Occultists themselves are ready to concede partial correctness to the Darwinian hypothesis. man appears on Earth earlier than any animal creation. the Monadic inflow." It has been repeatedly stated that evolution as taught by Manu and Kapila was the groundwork of the modern teachings. or inner evolution. as far as the evolution of man is concerned. than the Earth was able to develop man from the ape. As one member writes: "I suppose you realise that three-fourths of Theosophists and even outsiders imagine that.theosociety. is that man was an ape in this or in any other Round. . to find there the statement that "Man belongs to a kingdom distinctly separate from that of the animals. Darwinism and Theosophy kiss one another.theosociety." Nothing of the kind was ever realised. and after the midway point of the Fourth Race. But it is still urged that the author of "Esoteric Buddhism" has "preached Darwinism" all along. however much he may have been "ape-like." To those who bring this passage forward as showing "decided Darwinism. as will be described. 47 of "Esoteric Buddhism. Page]] 187 AN ERRONEOUS OPINION. but neither Occultism nor Theosophy has ever supported the wild theories of the present Darwinists -. that the full-blown human Monads have to be first disposed of. Of this. as of the same sort of impulse concerned to raise a race of apes into a race of rudimentary men. 1. were they written in the spirit attributed
http://www. or that he ever could be one.http://www. in "Esoteric Buddhism." 5th edition. may remain an open question. more hereafter." With such a plain and unequivocal statement before him. for such matters lie entirely outside of its sphere of investigation. as to have led them into the belief that it thoroughly supported Darwinian evolution. in later details. . so far as we know. it is very strange that any careful student should have been so misled unless he is prepared to charge the author with a gross contradiction. physical science can really know nothing. as just mentioned.
[[Vol.least of all the descent of man from an ape. nor is there any great warrant for it. But what the Occultists have never admitted.05. and especially the theory of the descent of man from a pithecoid ancestor. Certain passages would undoubtedly seem to lend countenance to this inference. or is simply (as we believe it is) a lapsus calami." This is vouched for by the very authority from whom the author of "Esoteric Buddhism" got his information. during the Fourth Round." the Occultists answer by pointing to the explanation of the Master (Mr.
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Page]] 188 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Thus. . Then it touches upon the mystery of the Devas. Then they become an active force and commingle with the Elementals. Round. He (Man) is still gigantic and ethereal but growing firmer and more condensed in body. . . . Yet still less intelligent than spiritual (1). and correspondingly. he grows more and more into an encased or incarnate being. Inzoonization and finally Incarnation. "II. and advises the student to hold to the doctrine of analogy and correspondences. two years ago (1886). in reconciling some facts. and he becomes a more rational being. .theosociety. as we see. Inherbation. A copy of this letter was sent to the writer. to develop little by little the full type of humanity. which will be expanded and explained in Book II. with the evolution of man from the animal. i. . . than spiritual. on the downward arc.htm (16 von 19) [06. 1." and explains this by hinting at the necessity of failures even in the ethereal races of Dhyan Chohans. Round. . . in the "Secret Doctrine.
and even Gods.. nor do they incarnate in man until the Third Root Race. In the last half of the Third Round his gigantic stature decreases.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09." These Dhyan Chohans. a more physical man. in the First Race of the Fourth Round. having to pass through states which it was agreed to refer to as "Inmetallization. "III. and his body improves in texture. For.2003 03:31:09]
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to them. non-intelligent but superspiritual. for mind is a slower and more difficult evolution than is the physical frame .theosociety. our Earth." It begins by considering the difficulty experienced by the Western student. "they will have to drink it to the last drop in the bitter cup of retribution. at first the form of a giant-ape. the progressed entities of the pure animal kingdom. He has now a perfectly concrete or compacted body. together with others. previously given. with additional marginal remarks. was an ethereal being (a Lunar Dhyani. as man). or rather cunning. he has now reached a point where his primordial spirituality is eclipsed and overshadowed by nascent mentality (2).e. as the teaching stands: "Man in the First Round and First Race on Globe D.

centred in our make such strange extremes! From different Natures* marvellously mixed . Page]] 190 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Intellect has an enormous development in this Round. to quote from a letter of the
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[[Vol.) " . Round. All this must be taken in its relative sense. Neither was the difference between the "Rounds" and the "Races" sufficiently defined in the letters received.and particularized nothing.) "Restore: he has now reached the point (by analogy. . . or Atlantean." "materiality" and "spirituality. . (All this is almost exactly repeated in the third Root-Race of the Fourth Round. The first 'Nature. At this half-way point of the Fourth Round (as of the Fourth Root.' . the world teeming with the results of intellectual activity and spiritual decrease .theosociety. . on which. and as the Third Root Race in the Fourth Round) where his ("the angel"-man's) primordial spirituality is eclipsed and overshadowed by nascent human mentality.
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into an error. as the ordinary Eastern disciple would have found out the difference in a moment. . language is perfected and knowledge increases. It stands to reason that there must be an enormous difference in such terms as "objectivity" and "subjectivity. nor was there anything of the kind required before.htm (17 von 19) [06. words and sentences in brackets. . and you have the true version on your thumb-nail.text. .' the first 'body.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.http://www. . on the first Globe in the first Round. (1.' the first 'mind' on the first plane of perception. Page]] 189 A MASTER'S LETTER. race) humanity passes the axial point of the minor Manvantara cycle . The (hitherto) dumb races acquire our (present) human speech on this globe.2003 03:31:09]
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theosociety. the Lemuro-Atlantean of the closing Third Race was so. smuggled goods . the Atlantean race. he was higher than we are with all our sciences and the degraded civilization of the day: at any rate. "the god of the wind") by Anjana. represented Humanity. owing to his inclination towards modern science. Morally irresponsible. They were. "the teachings were imparted under protest. Page]] 191 THE PRELIMINARY CREATION OF MAN." Nor does the author of "Esoteric Buddhism" assert it anywhere in his work in so many words. had so far tossed all the cards into confusion.2003 03:31:09]
. To this day the world is more full of "ape-like men" than the woods are of "men-like apes. . that little remained to be said without trespassing upon law. did not teach the evolution of "man" from the "ape. The man who preceded the Fourth. who.htm (18 von 19) [06. however unsatisfactory. The reader who bears this in mind will find in Book II.an anthropoid of the actual animal kind.
[[Vol. vague and fragmentary. though his genealogy varies. created that missing link which became ages later (in the tertiary period only) the remote ancestor of the real ape as we find it now in the pithecoid family. The "Men" of the Third Race (who separated) were "Gods" by their spirituality and purity. ."the counterfeit of man who hath not the life of a man" -. Hanuman is the son of Pavana (Vayu.theosociety.http://www.
http://www. "whom it may concern. unless metaphorically. . then the reader is asked to bear in mind that the placental mammal only is meant. a monster called Kesari.*
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Master's (188-). and if one accepts tradition. These "Men" of the Third Race -. but. as men. . 1. the preposterous modern theory of the descent of man from a common ancestor with the ape -. . or any Adept believed in. but there is no contradiction or impossibility in this whatever. intellectually senseless giants as were those beings.was still a thinking and already a speaking man.were just such ape-like.. In those days there were animals of which zoology does not even dream in our own. and as yet destitute of mind.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09. it was these third Race "men" who. though senseless.05. and the modes of reproduction were not identical with the notions which modern physiology has upon the subject. which is better history than the speculative fiction which now passes under that name. the other. Mr." The ape is sacred in India because its origin is well known to the Initiates.
Thus the earlier teachings. he uses language which might perhaps justify such an inference. however much he may have looked physically like a "gigantic ape" -. during the Third Round. The "LemuroAtlantean" was a highly civilized race. The outcome of all this is that nothing had ever been said in the "letters" to warrant the assurance that the Occult doctrine has ever taught. . though concealed under a thick veil of allegory." will understand what is meant. through promiscuous connection with animal species lower than themselves. so to say. and when I remained face to face with only one correspondent. ." Theosophists. passim. . It is not altogether convenient to touch upon such questions in public. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-09.the ancestors of the Atlanteans -.

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http://www. as they are called. or. 1. And it so happens that we are in the Fourth Round. It can equally mean fourth "Eternity" as "Fourth Round. For this verse belongs to the general Cosmogony given in the archaic volumes.theosociety. They refuse to enter the chhayas (shadows or images) of their inferiors. P. and the third RootRaces.Vol. Sloka 4 in this same Stanza. in Book II. How the punishment reached the gods will be seen in the second volume. 1.
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Spirit per se is an unconscious negative ABSTRACTION.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. over whose solution the
http://www. humanity branched off into its two diametrically opposite paths: the RIGHT. as also of human intellectuality. before the physiological "Fall. Page]] 193 THE FIRST CAUSE OF SIN." This means that the purely Nirvanic state is a passage of Spirit back to the ideal abstraction of Be-ness which has no relation to the plane on which our Universe is accomplishing its cycle. and astronomical.that of generation. as we shall see. took place through the WILL of the Creators. Powers -. "A Dhyani has to be an Atma-Buddhi. as already said. "Thus were the germs of the White and the Black Magic sown in those days." (Commentary. SUFFER AND CAUSE SUFFERING (b). once the Buddhi-Manas breaks loose from its immortal Atma of which it (Buddhi) is the vehicle. hence to suffering. i. -. Blavatsky. THE CURSE IS PRONOUNCED (a): THEY WILL BE BORN IN THE FOURTH (Race).. conscious Being. spiritual.Continued. or of their progeny. hence.

into the brute and savage"? This is diametrically opposite to our Eastern teaching. functioning medium. to have refused to create physical man. "When man was created. impelled and guided by fathomless LAW. Satan and his rebellious host would thus prove. became volitional in its developed and developing action. For. . "According to the symbolical teaching. P. A FALL.
http://www. "from the natural into the supernatural and the animal" -.but likewise a divine function that involves that other religious.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. 235).htm (3 von 19) [06. and the Dragon fought and his angels. the "Fall" of the Angels. Vol 1. that old serpent. This looks like Corporealism and Substantialism colouring positive philosophy. the scripture of the Nazarenes. however. James calls 'devilish') the lower portion the Anima Mundi or Astral Light. a still purer spirit. and calls in Fetahil. Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon. (Book II. which St. the "Father of the Genii.means what we suggest. who fails still worse. as will be seen later on. . instead of remaining a mere blind.05. the real mystic Christians of John the Baptist and the Initiates of Christos. which deceiveth the whole world." he fails to do so. From this state he fell -. called the devil and Satan. with human affections. and prevailed not. Psyche. and contrasted with. so good. but what does the Author mean by saying." is ordered to construct creatures (to create). as it is called. Sloka 17. to his aid." The symbolical teaching is more than mystical and religious." So far. it is purely scientific." the lords of light who fail one after the other. and in contradiction to the Kingdom of Souls and Divine action.theosociety.) We will now quote from our earlier Volumes: -"Then steps on the stage of creation the spirit** (of the Earth so-called. or rather dogmatic. his
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. substituting its own will for the Divine desire in its regard. With the Nazarenes and the Gnostics this Spirit was
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Embryologists have vainly put their heads together -. Page]] 194 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. only to become the direct Saviours and the Creators of "divine Man. which flow from and are the product of Spirit-volition. he was human in constitution. the "rebellious" Angel claimed and enforced his right of independent judgment and will. since man and angel are alike under Karmic Law. and. Hence the Kingdom and reign of Spirits and spiritual action.supernatural meaning the purely spiritual in this case -.
right of free-agency and responsibility. (See the close of this Sloka). neither was their place found any more in Heaven. when the meaning of the allegory is explained. ." The Kabalistic version of the same story is given in the Codex Nazareus. the author of the "New Aspects of Life" says of the Fallen Angels that. 1. Blavatsky.

05. the splendour (light) of the newest man (Fetahil) has failed (to produce or create men). says: 'Lord of the Genii******* (AEons). and the Genii or angels from the rebels.** 'who was frantic and without sense and judgment. and my father is the husbandman. but in this instance he is the unlucky Prometheus." Mind.' and says to him: -. Fetahil extends his hand towards the abyss of matter.****** he being the third life." ****** "I am the true Vine." the Son of the Man. Page]] 195 THE CODEX REPEATS THE ALLEGORY. of Justin Martyr and the "Codex" itself. guided by the insinuations of the spirit (not the Divine breath but the Astral spirit. Rise up.' After which follows the union of the frantic and blind matter.2003 03:31:13]
. ii.***" "Then the Codex proceeds to tell how Bahak-Zivo was separated from the Spiritus. 233. sec 6c
** On the authority of Irenaeus. on account of the magnitude of their ambition..htm (4 von 19) [06.The Secret Doctrine by H. see what the Genii.. and commiserating the rebellious and foolish Genii.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10." **** Codex Nazaraeus. and those more ample than the whole world.' she awakes Karabtanos. the Heavenly Man of the "Rig Vedas. the decrease of this splendour is visible. the
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* Fetahil is identical with the host of the Pitris who "created Man" as only a "shell. the blind demon of concupiscence." and the seven stellars (planets) which represent also the seven capital sins. the progeny of an astral soul separated from its divine source (spirit) and matter. ***** This Mano of the Nazarenes strangely resembles the Hindu Manu. he creates our planet. (Dunlap: "Sod. p. Seeing this. as he is ignorant of the secret name. which he condenses." and Dunlap's "Sod. who fails to get hold of the Living Fire necessary for the formation of the divine Soul. Helm and Vine of the food of life.* the newest man (the latest). who dwells with the greatest FERHO. Dunlap shows that the Nazarenes regarded "Spirit" as a female and Evil Power in its connection with our Earth. bk 1. come with thy MOTHER (the Spiritus) and free thee from limits by which thou art held.' Dipping his hand in the chaos. see. Thus the spirit of the Earth perceiving that for Fetahil. the Spiritus conceives "Seven Figures.' and that for splendour existed 'decrease and damage.'Arise. the king of light. 1. the splendour was 'changed. and says: -.)
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feminine. the ineffable or incommunicable name of the Kabalists. Vol 1.
[[Vol." (John xv. ** The spirit of Matter and Concupiscence. call Kebar-Zivo (known also by the name of Nebat-Iavar bar Iufin Ifafin). 1. and the creator. which by its double essence is already tainted with matter). Blavatsky. P.'Let the Earth exist. 52).**** Then Mano***** (the greatest).theosociety. with the Nazarenes. "Kamarupa" minus "Manas. and the offer of the MOTHER being accepted. the Son of the Man." He was.

rebellious angels do. as well as Michael who is identical with him in some respects. Here one finds a repetition of the early allegorical. light and darkness. is this Living Fire. and about what they are consulting.* They say. is indeed matter. and everything living.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. 'Let us call for the world. the mighty Lord of Splendor. in one sense. Page]] 196 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Animals have only the latent germ of the highest immortal soul in them. It is already the outline of the two "Supremes" -. 1. while only the lower aspect of the Absolute. CABAR-ZIO. the progeny of Spiritus. and therefore is evil already. *** See the Cosmogony of Pherecydes. i. Blavatsky. But in the Stanzas no such idea exists. P. Most of the Western Christian Kabalists -. and furnishes the astral soul. with matter. it is Spirit or Purusha. without which only creatures of matter from that Astral Light can be produced. It is said in "Isis Unveiled. while the female portion (the Spiritus of the Nazarenes) is tainted.
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******* With the Gnostics. a germ which has grown into such a luxuriant tree in ecclesiastical Christianity. produces seven other lives (the cardinal virtues) who shine in their own form and light "from on high"*** and thus re-establish the balance between good and evil. it is the Wisdom. to men. as the Zoroastrian."** And in order to counteract the influence of the seven "badly disposed" principles. the "Sons of Light. This latter will develop
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creative Spirits. For them. like Brahma. a god. note.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. a beast. but only the three Kabalistic Faces of the semi-exoteric Kabala. a beast. I. void. in the Chaldean Book of Numbers. "the son of Darkness. and the physical." whose mother.
only after a series of countless evolutions. "Stellar
http://www.'" (Vol. are fully considered.) If one studies the Comments attentively he will find the same progression in the angelic natures. the region and "rule (or government) of fire. See for the difference between nous. corporeal. He produces from himself seven other Gods. They are one and the same thing seen from two aspects: the spiritual and the psychic -. viz. as Satan stands to the Deity. 1. of this volume. and the spirit.theosociety.The Secret Doctrine by H. . or the child born in the egg of Chaos. Page]] 198 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Ilda-Baoth. the Divine Wisdom (the female Holy Ghost of the early Christians) -. or desolation. was the daughter of Sophia." Part II. Page]] 197 ILDA-BAOTH-JEHOVAH. the seven
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[[Vol. the doctrine of which evolution is contained in the Kabalistic axiom: 'A stone becomes a plant. James iii.05. from the passive down to the active." and Baoth. of Isis (p. the latter. Book I. a plant. Sophia Achamoth. a spirit. however. p. a man.outside the circle of Mosaic Jews -. and one of the lower Sephiroth. In Volume II. 183 et seq. incorporeal. ** The astral light stands in the same relation to Akasa and Anima Mundi.the superethereal or connecting link between matter and pure spirit. the higher divine wisdom.about Jehovah." which group is divided into three classes. They show the views held in those days -." emptiness. rather than with the good principle." (See Comments on Stanza VII. *** Ilda-Baoth is a compound name made up of Ilda..Akasa. he was Ilda-Baoth. He was identified by all the Gnostics with the evil. which makes four or the "Tetraktis. "a child.) the philosophical systems of the Gnostics and the primitive Jewish Christians.htm (6 von 19) [06. the last of these Beings being as near to the Ahamkara element (the region or plane wherein Egoship or the feeling of I-am-ness is beginning to be defined) as the first ones are near to the undifferentiated essence. the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. Vide "Demon est Deus inversus. Rupa. bk 1.* But these contain the description of the mystic natures of the first group of Dhyan Chohans in the regimen ignis.

with the Greek as with the Roman Catholics -. who gave him. THE OLDER WHEELS ROTATED DOWNWARD AND UPWARD (a). P. Vol 1. . and have become darker and more material as they successively receded from their originator. throughout the long cycle of Maha-kalpa the law of the Spirit of Life. and were the opponents of the later Christians. 6. sec 6c
Spirits" (or the lunar ancestors*). the true followers of the true Christos were all Nazarenes and Christians.. while the lowest." The present Stanza. with Hindus and Chaldeans. the diagram of the lunar ring of seven worlds. -. on the descending scale. the upper worlds are spiritual. as quoted a few pages back. 186.05. and made him free from the Sin of Ignorance. They also inhabit seven regions disposed like a ladder. (See the Section On Satan in Part II. whether Moon. II.the reader must return once more to Cosmogony. as of the seven planetary spheres of our septenary chain. dogmatic. The only reference to it in the Christian canon is found in Revelations xii. Thus "SATAN.
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. THE MOTHER'S SPAWN FILLED THE WHOLE (Kosmos)." the emanations. having finished for the time being with our side-issues -. as its rungs slope up and down the scale of spirit and matter." once he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious. in the opinion of the philosophical Gnostics. p.as subordinate Angels (Messengers) to these "Rishis. Blavatsky. Vol. bk 1. as in our or any other chain.theosociety. ** About the Nazarenes see Isis.
STANZA VI. 131 and 132. and the reflections one of the other. is found embodied entirely in the Kabalistic works. Vol.Continued. are necessary for the elucidation of the whole scheme -. Vol.*** With Pagans and Christians. p.) This connects the "Stellar" and "Lunar" Spirits with the higher planetary Angels and the Saptarishis (the seven Rishis of the Stars) of the Hindus -. 1.** (a) Here.htm (7 von 19) [06.)
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http://www.with a slight variation of the texts in their interpretations -. grows into the grandiose image of one who made of terrestrial a divine MAN.* THERE WERE BATTLES FOUGHT BETWEEN THE CREATORS AND THE DESTROYERS. hence of death. were the God and the Archangels now worshipped by the Christians! The "Fallen Angels" and the legend of the "War in Heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from India via Persia and Chaldea. II.The Secret Doctrine by H.

The following comparative diagram shows the identity between the two systems. the lower ones represent the four lower planes -.
the reader will find a still clearer explanation of the above in the Commentary upon Saptaparna -.theosociety. P. Rohanee! In Section the VIIth of this Book. These seven planes correspond to the seven states of consciousness in man. rebuilt from old material into new forms. the Kabalistic and the Eastern.the lowest being our plane. In the Kabala.htm (8 von 19) [06. or what is called by the Sufis. worlds are compared to sparks which fly from under the hammer of the great Architect -. Blavatsky. The previous Globes disintegrate and reappear transformed and perfected for a new phase of life. bk 1.05. 1.2003 03:31:13]
. But before he can attempt to attune. revealed and explained in both schools only to the Initiates.the man-plant. ** This is purely astronomical. It remains with him to attune the three higher states in himself to the three higher planes in Kosmos. Vol 1.
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those countless Globes which evolve after a periodical Pralaya.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. See also the Section of that name in Part II. Page]] 200 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. The three upper are the three higher planes of consciousness. not the Infinite Universe.The Secret Doctrine by H. And how many are capable of bringing themselves to even a superficial comprehension of Atma-Vidya (Spirit-Knowledge).
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to be followed and improved upon by the worlds which succeed it physically -. P. 1.htm (9 von 19) [06." there where form ceases to exist." i. ------------(b) "The Seed appears and disappears continuously. the world as it existed in the Mind of the Deity.e.
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[[Vol. ‡ These are the four lower planes of Cosmic Consciousness. Page]] 201 NO SHADOW.." viewed by Science as material particles in a highly attenuated condition. i. † The word "Archetypal" must not be taken here in the sense that the Platonists gave to it." Here "Seed" stands for "the World-germ.theosociety. on the objective plane..

The older (bodies) attract the younger. said: "What a difference between that which we recognise as matter here and that which seems like matter there! In the one. . allegorized .The Secret Doctrine by H. III. not being aware of what it contained.
We have been assured that there exist several modern works of speculative fancy upon such struggles
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* To see and appreciate the difference -. I wonder that we can endure it all.every astronomer. to impel them to move in converging lines and finally to approach each other and aggregate. sec 6c
differentiation. Now light without any shadow would be absolute light -.05. absolute darkness -.was. Vol 1. the elements are so coarse and so angular. without order or system. . "Being scattered in Space." (Vol." (Book of Dzyan) .the immense gulf that separates terrestrial matter from the finer grades of supersensuous matter -. Elizabeth Denton. If. a God.* In theogony. the lady. Those that escape become worlds. Mrs. every Seed is an ethereal organism. they are so free from those great. nevertheless.theosociety. and also one of the most materialistic and sceptical women of her age -. all the elements are so refined. in an envelope. rough angularities. Blavatsky. 1.as physical science seeks to prove. . that I can but regard that as by so much the more than this. which characterize the elements here. or. even at our late period. every chemist and physicist ought to be a psychometer.
[[Vol.if one likes -. after which they become wanderers (Comets). and as difficult of definition as our Fohat himself. as the Occult teaching expresses it: "The Central Sun causes Fohat to collect primordial dust in the form of balls. bk 1. from which evolves later on a celestial being. This is what she described in one of her experiments.in the shape of the Spirit of Creative Fire or Heat.the wife of Professor Denton. science chooses to see in this the primordial Fire-Mist. the well-known American geologist and the author of "The Soul of Things" -. with a particle of a meteorite placed on her forehead.htm (10 von 19) [06. Many perish. this will be found as scientific as Science could make it.in other words.2003 03:31:13]
. one of the most learned. while others repel them. In the "beginning. the real existence. devoured by their stronger companions.) ** When carefully analysed and reflected upon. rejecting the poetical form and allegory. p." that which is called in mystic phraseology "Cosmic Desire" evolves into absolute Light.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. to say the least. it is welcome to do so." as Plato has it. he ought to be able to sense for himself that difference in which he now refuses to believe. 345-6. .

" etc. are distinctly taught. the "struggles. Even the Puranic writers have ingeniously interwoven allegory with Cosmic facts and human events. and esoteric application to things above as to things below. They relate severally to astronomical.htm (11 von 19) [06. with the Asuras -. as we see.. it is that of antiquity." and the idea of Darwinian-like evolution. sec 6c
for life in sidereal heaven. is sure to be repudiated as an integral whole.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. in Hesiod and other classical writers. II.05. an astronomy that would not be rejected even by modern speculation could the latter thoroughly understand its teachings. Thus the Secret Books distinctly teach. of a just deceased sidereal body -. and then Suns to cool down to inhabitable worlds. theogonical and human struggles. Hence the incessant fights of Indra. For.theosociety. Vol 1. for ours is an Occult teaching lost in the darkness of archaic ages. A "struggle for life" as a "survival of the fittest" in the worlds above. This teaching. planets. P. . All these relate to Heaven and Earth. . etc. runs throughout both the volumes of our earlier work. . The great "Wars in Heaven. Northern Mythology refers to it as the battle of the Flames. Blavatsky. although it would not be "entirely rejected" by Science." in the Puranas. etc. and have a double and often even a triple meaning. when a third of the stars of the rebellious host was hurled down into Space." Vol. it means that all the worlds or sidereal bodies (always on strict
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[[Vol..later on incarnated as kings and mortals." also in the Egyptian legend between Osiris and Typhon. For it avers that there are only seven Self-born primordial "gods" emanated from the trinitarian ONE. and even those in the Scandinavian legends. of struggle for life and supremacy."Kapila" -"Battle of Life.as soon as a nucleus of primordial substance in the laya (undifferentiated) state is informed by the freed principles. p."Darwin" -.) But the idea was not ours. In other words. and many of far more momentous import.) The assertion that all the worlds (Stars. 260.become first comets. to the adjustment of orbs." As said long ago -. the battles fought between stars and constellations. Page]] 203 THE BIRTH OF THE WORLDS. ("Isis Unveiled. The "Struggle for Existence" and the "Survival of the Fittest" reigned supreme from the moment that Kosmos manifested into being.
and transformation.The Secret Doctrine by H. and "its place was found no more in Heaven. the god of the Firmament. both anticipating him and his school in the natural selection of species. written in 1876 (See Index in "Isis Unveiled" at the words "Evolution" -. the sons of Muspel who fought on the field of Wigred."This is the basic and fundamental stone of the secret cycles. archaic astronomy. etc. and with Vritri or Ah-hi. all refer to the same subject. We rejoice to hear it. between Moon and planets -. as on our planet here below. the wars of the Titans.degraded from high gods into Cosmic demons. and could hardly escape the observant eye of the ancient Sages. expressed views identical with those of modern science. . 1.) -. and of the "survival of the fittest" among the Hosts above as the Hosts below. It shows that the Brahmins and Tanaim . speculated on the creation and development of the world quite in a Darwinian way. physical and mathematical sciences. There were old worlds that perished conquered by the new. We have treated of it fully in "Isis Unveiled. Hence also the War in Heaven of Michael and his Host against the Dragon (Jupiter and Lucifer-Venus)." etc. however. Any symbologist may discern the astro-cosmical allusion even though he be unable to grasp the whole meaning.

Therefore it is said: -Born in the unfathomable depths of Space. when suddenly animated or fired up -. growth. as Europeans do." Seven ascetics appear on the threshold of the temple with seven lighted sticks of incense. and the "Circles. It is only after losing its velocity. Blavatsky. trying to avoid. these Circles are the Equator. Through a series of countless ages. is in contradiction with the statements just made as to the moon being the mother of the earth.theosociety. many perish. and.05. to Stanza IV). The seven lokas are also called the "Rings. Thus with the heavenly bodies. What does Science know of Comets. live. bk 1. "He places his four fiery (electro-positive) Sons in the "Four circles". Some very critical readers will perhaps imagine that this teaching. after the primordial manifestation at the beginning of the "Great Age" is accomplished. Those which move slower and are propelled into an elliptic course are doomed to annihilation sooner or later. like a ship drawn into a channel dotted with reefs and sunken rocks. 1.to preside over the climates of which are placed the Four mystical Entities. the Ecliptic." it is said. it has to conquer
[[Vol. and hence its fiery tail. other bodies that draw and repel it in turn. chiefly within the insatiable stomachs of various Suns.The Secret Doctrine by H. as to the cometary stage passed through by all heavenly bodies. The strange statement made in one of the Stanzas: "The Songs of Fohat and his Sons were radiant as
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analogy) are formed one from the other. Then again: "Other seven (sons) are commissioned to preside over the seven hot. and become an inhabited globe! "The abodes of Fohat are many. begins life under the most hostile circumstances. and furnishes the rest with fire. every nucleus of Cosmic matter.absolutely nothing! And what is there so impossible that a laya centre -. out of the homogeneous Element called the World-Soul. and ultimate behaviour? Nothing -. A laya-centre is lighted and awakened into life by the fires of another "pilgrim. their mass disintegrating through stronger masses.should rush from its bed in Space and whirl throughout the abysmal depths in order to strengthen its homogeneous organism by an accumulation and addition of differentiated elements? And why should not such a comet settle in life. P. The birth of the celestial bodies in Space is compared to a crowd or multitude of "pilgrims" at the festival of the "Fires. homogeneous and latent. moving by jerks." after which the new "centre" rushes into space and becomes a comet." elsewhere. and the two parallels of declination.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. They will perhaps fancy that intuition is needed to harmonize the two. (See Comm. and pulling towards some given point or centre that attracts it. that the "Fiery Dragon" settles down into quiet and steady life as a regular respectable citizen of the sidereal family. for Mount Meru. when born within a system. At the light of these the first row of pilgrims light their incense sticks. After which every ascetic begins whirling his stick around his head in space. Others moving in parabolic curves generally escape destruction. owing to their velocity. and seven cold lokas (the hells of the orthodox Brahmins) at the two ends of the Egg of Matter (our Earth and its poles). But no intuition is in truth required. Vol 1. their genesis.
for itself a place in the infinitudes.a lump of cosmic protoplasm. Page]] 204 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. which is the North Pole.htm (12 von 19) [06. or the tropics -.

at the same time. bk 1. . from the surplus of which the Earth. as the pupil is asked to do in the Stanza. FOR THOU SHALT SEE (b).
To calculate its age. P. (2) the aeriform and radiant (gaseous). 1. It is one of those on which the "hot (positive) breath of the Sun" has a direct effect. ITS FOURTH SPOKE IS OUR MOTHER (Earth) (a). and his correspondence regarding this moot question.
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http://www. The two poles are said to be the store-houses.) Perhaps the above will be regarded as archaic nonsense. (Vishnu Purana.theosociety. At the same time it is now a theory that has lately become an axiom. "Sound is the characteristic of Akasa (Ether): it generates air.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. which (by friction) becomes productive of Colour and Light. 7. (a) The "small wheel" is our chain of spheres. O LANOO. . . have in them several of the properties of Akasa (Ether) colour and sound as well. strong sounds. . MAKE THY CALCULATIONS. (But see Professor Trumholdt's works on the Aurora Borealis. .05. however. HEARING COLOURS. .) ------STANZA VI. is rather difficult. and productive of. that the phenomenon of polar lights is accompanied by. .htm (13 von 19) [06. and cracking. both of which take place at the very centres of terrestrial electric and magnetic forces. the receptacles and liberators. . Ethereal [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol." ." would have been rent to pieces long ago. or rather of their constituent particles of matter." .Continued." is explained in the Commentary in these words: "The agitation of the Fohatic Forces at the two cold ends (North and South Poles) of the Earth which resulted in a multicoloured radiance at night. the fourth in the chain. IF THOU WOULDST LEARN THE CORRECT AGE OF THY SMALL WHEEL (chain). but it will be better comprehended. 1. is described as follows: (1) The homogeneous. Page]] 205 SEEING SOUND." and that the four Sons on the middle four-fold
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[[Vol. (differentiated. these become stars. "The older wheels rotated for one Eternity and one half of an Eternity.05. and that as "The ONE (Deity) becomes Two (Deva or Angel) and Two becomes Three (or man). etc. is not yet the highest Initiate. which are known respectively in Sanskrit as "Srotapanna. our fourth Round.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. before the separation of the sexes of the Third Race. since Descartes thought also that "the planets rotate on their axes because they were once lucid stars. fiery. and the stars (the centres of vortices) our sun and planets -.. in this. which leaves 98. as it does for man. in their earliest states. if we take for our basis the above figures. except as to the approximate duration of these.000.* (b) There are four grades of initiation mentioned in exoteric works.000. as we have to bring it to the mystical combination 14 x 7. to begin with.000."the ever-living-humanBanyan.theosociety.the highest on Earth. bk 1. the centres of Vortices.The Secret Doctrine by H. though he can see the Past. Vol 1." and "Arhan" -." they say. moreover. The Arhan. Three further higher grades have to be conquered by the Arhan who would reach the apex of the ladder of Arhatship. Therefore it is impossible to calculate its age. bearing the same appellations. and the Future.htm (14 von 19) [06. some chronological hints will be given. but the faculties necessary for the attainment of these higher
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not given the figures of the Great Kalpa. At the close of this Book and in Book II.040..040. for the Adept himself. and in the Sixth and Seventh. so we are taught that the Curds (world-stuff) become wanderers." it says.which the TEACHERS refuse to do. they having seven states. Blavatsky." i. the present life-cycle." This "Wondrous Being" descended from a "high region. But we have no knowledge at what time precisely the evolution and formation of our little earth began. however." "Sagardagan.000 years. The Arhats of the "fire-mist" of the 7th rung are but one remove from the RootBase of their Hierarchy -. Thus there will always be Initiates and the Profane till the end of this minor Manvantara.. it was produced
http://www. We know that by "Eternity" the seventh part of 311. and our Terrestrial chain. vapoury (the future Earth). P. becomes chela (pupil) to a higher Initiate. (6) Four-fold. There are those who have reached it even in this fifth race of ours.to put it briefly. the initiated candidate. hence of differentiation). the Present. But what of that? We also know that. We must remember. This Third Race is sometimes called collectively "the Sons of Passive Yoga.000 years) two years taken up by the Sandhyas (twilights). that the law of Analogy holds good for the worlds. * This cannot be so very unscientific. when completely developed on our earth).. (Comets)." "Anagamin. and are not allowed to publish those of our small Yugas. in the early part of the Third Age. This "Root-Base" has a name which can only be translated by several compound words into English" -. but composed of the germs only of the Elements. we have first of all to eliminate from the 100 years of Brahma (or 311. 1.2003 03:31:13]
. (7) Cold and depending (on the Sun for life and light)." etc. or an age of Brahma is meant.the four paths to Nirvana. so far.
grades will be fully developed in the average ascetic only at the end of this Root-Race.e. (5) Germinal.

have branched off. is supposed to have been constantly plunged in a kind of blank or abstract contemplation. The "BEING" just referred to. the "Sons of Wisdom. on this earth and during the present cycle.2003 03:31:13]
. which.GURU that all the other less divine Teachers and instructors of mankind became. entirely apart from the rest of mankind. as required by the conditions of the Yoga state. It is he who changes form. yet remains ever the same. These "Sons of Will and Yoga" born. superior intelligence. as said. the guides of early Humanity. in short. all the great historically known Sages and Hierophants. in subsequent ages. as it was intellectually inactive. bk 1. etc. they are those in whom are said to have incarnated the highest Dhyanis. Because.aye. He is the "Initiator. Because he would fain show the way to that region of freedom and light. he is the mysterious (to the profane -the ever invisible) yet ever present Personage about whom legends are rife in the East. Blavatsky.The Secret Doctrine by H.htm (15 von 19) [06.(great) -." and after him a group of semi-divine and semi-human beings. sec 6c
unconsciously by the second Race. from which he is a voluntary exile himself. It was at first a wondrous Being. They were a conscious production. so to speak. It is under the direct. he has sacrificed himself for the sake of mankind. which has to remain nameless. to every prisoner who has succeeded in liberating himself from the bonds of flesh and illusion. remained. in an immaculate way. etc.*
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http://www." called the "GREAT SACRIFICE.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. the "Nameless One" who has so many names. It is through these "Sons of God" that infant humanity got its first notions of all the arts and sciences. as a portion of the race was already animated with the divine spark of spiritual.to form the nursery for future human adepts. this progeny. incarnated in this Third Race. especially among the Occultists and the students of the Sacred Science. "Set apart" in Archaic genesis for certain purposes. silent guidance of this MAHA -. which he will not cross. sitting at the threshold of LIGHT. sore-footed pilgrims on their way back to their home are never sure to the last moment of not losing their way in this limitless desert of illusion and matter called Earth-Life. "Munis and Rishis from previous Manvantaras" -. It was not a Race.05. Why does the solitary Watcher remain at his self-chosen post? Why does he sit by the fountain of primeval Wisdom. Hermes. produced by Kriyasakti a progeny called the "Sons of Ad" or "of the Fire-Mist. as will be seen. In the first or earlier portion of the existence of this third race. it is explained.. nor in its heaven? Because the lonely. As objective man. Enoch. P. such as the Rishi Kapila." the "Sons of Will and Yoga. as he has naught to learn which he does not know -. and it is they who have laid the first foundation-stone of those ancient civilizations that puzzle so sorely our modern generation of students and scholars. nor will he quit his post till the last day of this life-cycle." who. while it was yet in its state of purity. Orpheus. called the "Initiator.theosociety.
initiated Adepts throughout the whole world. of which he drinks no longer. he looks into it from within the circle of Darkness. as well as of spiritual knowledge." etc.. is the Tree from which. neither on this Earth. from the first awakening of human consciousness. and yet whose names and whose very nature are unknown. 1. Vol 1. He is. And it is he again who holds spiritual sway over the
[[Vol. though but a few Elect may profit by the GREAT SACRIFICE. Page]] 208 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." For.

on architecture. although these descendants (spiritually of course) from the "sons of Will and Yoga. yet even their degenerate descendants have down to the present day retained a veneration and respect for the creative
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] of those architectural proportions that the Ancients could build those wonders of all the subsequent ages. Egypt and Greece. 1. It is from them. as their "Kriyasakti" progenitors did themselves. but they have superadded enough empirical innovations to destroy those just proportions. proving they had the powers of machinery and a knowledge of mechanics to which modern skill is like a child's play. may help the student to obtain a glimpse into the present mystery. in short.
Although these matters were barely hinted at in "Isis Unveiled. and understand the deep esoteric significance hidden in every rule and law of proportion. pp." This is what appreciative posterity
http://www. 587 to 593. who handed it over to their Cyclopes. the Temples of India.on any other equally reasonable grounds. the "Sons of Cycles" or of the "Infinite.) Modern architects may not altogether have neglected those rules.The Secret Doctrine by H. It is the pupils of those incarnated Rishis and Devas of the third Root Race. who was an initiate. these Brahmaputras. It is Vitruvius who gave to posterity the rules of construction of the Grecian temples erected to the immortal gods." it will be well to remind the reader of what was said in Vol. though thrown out in a fragmentary form. in which all the rules of proportion are those taught anciently at initiations. the Atlanteans. however. Cave-Temples. concerning a certain Sacred Island in Central Asia.05. Let them turn to such works as those of Vitruvius Pollio of the Augustan age." became in time divided into opposite sexes. Blavatsky. the Towers and the 127 towns in Europe which were found "Cyclopean in origin" by the French Institute. for instance. and which that skill refers to itself as the 'works of hundred-handed giants. which adds moreover that." A few more explanations. later on. To state at least one detail concerning these mysterious "Sons of God" in plain words. "It is owing to the divine perfection [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. are all the work of initiated Priest-Architects. I. on "The Sons of God and the Sacred Island. the descendants of those primarily taught by the "Sons of God. to Egypt and Greece with its now lost canon of proportion. if he would acquaint himself with the truly divine art. the Dolmen." from whom the name passed to the still later generations of Gnostic priests. that the high Dwijas. and to refer him for further details to the chapter in Book II. Altars." justly called "The Builders. Pyramids.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. The Druidical circles. the cave-men of the Palaeolithic age -. while the modern Brahmin would have the lowest castes believe literally that they issued direct from the mouth of Brahma." Kenealy.alleged to have developed from lower and animal-like savages. the initiated Brahmins of old justly claimed descent. as it is the Disciples of the Initiates of the 4th. Vol 1. can only be studied esoterically. of one.htm (16 von 19) [06.. bk 1. No man descended from a Palaeolithic cave-dweller could ever evolve such a science unaided.theosociety. sec 6c
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. and the ten books of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio on Architecture. even in millenniums of thought and intellectual evolution. P. Cromlechs. who handed their knowledge from one generation to another. Cairns. their Fanes.'" (See "Book of God.

instinctive aspiration in primitive man is beautifully. which is innate in us. "how like a child's in its simplicity. making all the earth a mystic temple to him.
http://www. And. . the Lords of Wisdom infused into him the spark of consciousness. so the first aspirations of the awakening consciousness in primitive man were for those whose element he felt within himself. such Brahmins know that.) "Again. are 18 ft.")
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. and in the walls of the fortress of Cuzco there are stones of a still greater size. the first feeling it awoke to life and activity was a sense of solidarity. built 5.a work which the united skill of all the astronomers of Europe would not now be able to effect. which it has now ceased to be. angels yet hover. Glimpses of bright creatures flash in the common sunlight. psychic and physical intellect being dormant and consciousness still undeveloped. and. DEVOTION arose out of that feeling. "The great antique heart. and it is one: the garment
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says of those descendants. and which we find alike in human babe and the young of the animal..
function.400 years ago. P. A great law of duty. the spiritual conceptions of that race were quite unconnected with its physical surroundings. Blavatsky. This feeling of irrepressible. whereas the more civilized nations consider it as a mere animal function. the entire disc of the Sun was seen reflected on their surface -. Compare the western views and practice in these matters with the Institutions of Manu in regard to the laws of Grihasta and married life. doing God's messages among men . "They used neither mortar nor cement. ." (Acosta. Page]] 210 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. As the child's first feeling is for its mother and nurse.(Kenealy. Wonder.The Secret Doctrine by H. thick. he lives in an element of miracle* . and yet they were so artfully wrought that in many places the joints are not seen. Vol 1.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. for it is the only one which is natural in our heart. nor steel nor iron to cut the stones with." for he has understood the secret of the Vedas. and still regard it in the light of a religious ceremony." -. and became the first and foremost motor in his nature. the earth's business all a kind of worship. at the precise moment of the solar solstice.theosociety.though externally human -.05. "Book of God.htm (17 von 19) [06. no self-consciousness came to enlighten the darkness of the latent fifth principle.form. annihilating all else -. 1. described by Carlyle. high as these two infinitudes (heaven and hell). moved by the law of Evolution. were so constructed that at noon. and one may say intuitionally. as in Peru. of one-ness with his spiritual creators.it was a reality. encompass the man. . the walls of Syene. and that which was to him a miracle could never be expressed in our language. dwarfing all else. to this day. though many of the stones. . When. and who yet were outside." and who is a "Trisuparna. That divine man dwelt in his animal -. miracle. . when that spot was exactly under the tropic. and independent of him. during its early beginnings.

of more capacious breast For empire formed and fit to rule the rest. There were other "Sons of Kriyasakti" produced by a second Spiritual effort. 1.it is a breath of Heaven. the consciousness of the nature of that highest Being. Vol 1. How comes our physical body to the state of perfection it is found in now? Through millions of years of evolution. as repeated by Carlyle: -http://www. though the same as those who produced them.The Secret Doctrine by H. P.' -. But none of these has. but the roots of his inner being remained for ever undecaying and strong. this life of ours. outwardly.the fruits of Kriyasakti. and he was the seed of all the others. For. or from. of course.what words have we for such things? -. . like man. and no one since has said it better. Page]] 212 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. and from age to age." It was called into being.2003 03:31:13]
. for even so. these faculties. is in every animal. . and has settled in all its ineradicable strength and power in the Asiatic Aryan heart from the Third Race direct through its first "mind-born" sons. as Novalis said.05. which cannot wither and die until the last battle of life shall be fought. -. the mystery in us that calls itself 'I.
the highest Being reveals himself in man. even in our own -. . Its physical frame alone was of time and of life. As time rolled on the holy caste of Initiates produced but rarely. and therefore was designed. called in the Bible Nephesh.there have been great intellects who have understood the problem correctly. . the first and holy Son of Kriyasakti had his body gnawed by the tooth of time.* as none has that divine harmony in its form which man possesses." Of this subject we can say no more. He was the first of the FIRST. It was the living tree of divine wisdom. Conscious of thought. It was a child of pure Spirit. such perfect creatures: beings apart.
[[Vol. mentally unalloyed with any tincture of earthly element. a ready and perfect vehicle for the incarnating denizens of higher spheres. Blavatsky. but the first one has remained to this day the Seed of divine Knowledge. This body.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-10. the One and the Supreme among the terrestrial "Sons of Wisdom.htm (18 von 19) [06. bk 1. the essence of it lives through all times and all eternity!" It lives undeniably. .theosociety. 1. because they grew and expanded in heaven not on earth. is it not all as a vesture for the UNNAMED?" The breath of heaven. sec 6c
[[Vol. as it drew its intelligence direct from above. Page]] 211 THE SONS OF WISDOM. animals. While in the infancy of the third primitive race: -"A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet. It is.". and may therefore be likened to the Mundane Tree of the Norse Legend. The essence of our being. inwardly. in every animate speck as in every mineral atom. as Carlyle says: -. while its roots are gnawed all the time by the dragon Nidhogg. who took forthwith their abodes in these forms born of Spiritual WILL and the natural divine power in man.
only of it is dead. yet never through. except to add that in every age -aye. as taught by materialism. or rather the breath of life. .

05. We are the miracle of miracles."
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P. Blavatsky. ME. (a) The hierarchy of Creative Powers is divided into seven (or 4 and 3) esoteric. HIM. (again) THE THREE FROM THE ONE (d). 1. The highest group is composed of the divine Flames.(Atma-Buddhi. bk 1. THE ONE FROM THE MOTHER-SPIRIT (Atman). THE FOUR FROM THE ONE (e). and the Panchasyam. with the Seven Planets. and creates -[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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The Secret Doctrine by H. All this is subdivided into numberless groups of divine Spiritual. 1. or the "four bodies and the three faculties" of Brahma exoterically. 1.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. Spirit-soul)* (c). O LANOO.** IT IS THEY WHO ARE THOU. 1
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[[Vol. In this system. They are the formless Fiery Breaths. The Chief Hierarchies among these are hinted at in the great Quaternary. Anthropogenesis precedes Cosmogenesis.05. identical in one aspect with the upper Sephirothal TRIAD. as the Divine merges into the human. with the same numbers. THEY WHO WATCH OVER THEE AND THY MOTHER. Page]] 213 THE CREATIVE POWERS. the five Brahmas.THESE ARE THE THREE-FOLD AND THE FOUR-FOLD DOWNWARD. It is the nucleole of the superior divine World (see Commentary in first pages of Addendum). BEHOLD THE BEGINNING OF SENTIENT FORMLESS LIFE (a). semi-Spiritual. Blavatsky -. and ethereal Beings. vol. FIRST. moreover. ** The seven creative Rishis now connected with the constellation of the Great Bear
http://www.Vol. within the twelve great Orders. THEN THE SPIRITUAL -. THE "MIND-BORN SONS OF THE FIRST LORD (Avalokiteswara) THE SHINING SEVEN (the "Builders"). recorded in the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
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.htm (1 von 22) [06. P. BHUMI (the Earth). so-called. or the five DhyaniBuddhas in the Buddhist system. THE FIVE AND THE SEVEN (g) -. which is placed by the Kabalists in the "Archetypal World.The Secret Doctrine by H." The same hierarchy.theosociety. the seven of the manifesting scale being connected. AND THE FIVE (f). also spoken of as the "Fiery Lions" and the "Lions of Life." whose esotericism is securely hidden in the Zodiacal sign of Leo. THE DIVINE (vehicle) (b). is found in the Japanese system.

The latter is Brahm as differentiated from Brahma or Parabrahm." (Rosenroth. It is the Depth.which. and is destroyed during the Maha-Pralayas. Vahan. These were without form or substance (our arupa triad)." In the Zohar -.
occultatus est et absconditus.
midway in its descent into matter -. and not Ain-Soph. Liber Mysterii. and every old cosmogony -.remarks reverentially Omoie -. Ain-Soph.at this divine FLAME.as a chariot through which to manifest. When all was as yet Chaos (Kon-ton) three spiritual Beings appeared on the stage of future creation: (1) Ame no ani naka nushi no Kami. "nor had the essence of things been formed. would occupy too much of our space. IV."having to be understood as the stereotyped embodiment of the higher (secret) doctrine. as neither the celestial nor the terrestrial substance had yet differentiated.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. nor do they explain that in reality it is the First Cause (Plato's Logos) the original and eternal IDEA. is only a little less exoteric than the Bible itself -. that manifests through Adam Kadmon. "Offspring of the Gods. in the Egyptian. whereas its "Depth" (Bythos or Buthon of the Gnostics. 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. they now
http://www." True enough. since. the Source of Light. and its sublime truths. imperial Divine offspring of Heaven and the Earth". Microprosopus manifestus est. But the Kabalists neither make it plain how the ABSOLUTE can use anything. called Propator) is only periodical. 1. 1. Blavatsky. with the help of Syrian and Chaldean Christian Gnostics in the XIIth century. so to speak. in the phenomenal world. and it shows how closely the most separated notions echoed one and the same Archaic teaching.htm (2 von 22) [06.the visible Universe. bk 1. But in the Zohar we read the following incongruity: "Senior
[[Vol. The legendary personages -. Page]] 215 ONE PARENT FLAME. however. vol. "Divine Monarch of the Central Heaven". the ABSOLUTE ENDLESS NO-THING. (b) As in the Japanese system." To state it at full length. can only exist during its manifestations. COUNTLESS FLAMES. In the "Book of Numbers" it is explained that EN (or Ain. uses also the form of the ONE. Page]] 214 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. P. whose ray uses Adam-Kadmon or the manifested Logos (the objective Universe) "male and female" -. as now arranged and re-edited by Moses de Leon. et non manifestus. and (3) Kamu mi musubi no Kami. and manifest through. the Second Logos. it is devoid of attributes. "Exalted. (2) Taka mi onosubi no Kami. the manifested "Heavenly man" (the FIRST CAUSE) as its chariot (Mercabah.this divine "Vehicle" no longer appears as it does in the "Chaldean Book of Numbers. 1. but a few words on this old system cannot be out of place. Rosenroth's Kabala is no guide.2003 03:31:18]
. or exercise any attribute whatever..05. in Sanskrit) or vehicle to descend into." are lit the three descending groups. The following is a short synopsis of this Anthropo-Cosmogenesis. which is the unmanifested Logos or the abstract Idea. and corrected and revised still later by many Christian hands. Aior) is the only self-existent. Having their potential being in the higher group.theosociety.) This is a fallacy. sec 7
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. principle.the first Androgyne. however. or the "six limbs" of the Microprosopus the Seventh being Malkuth. but the first Heavenly Man is the unmanifested Spirit of the Universe. AEther. whereas Jehovah is no better than Binah. It is that of Vishnu in India (the Chakra.metaphorically -. the "He of the four letters" or -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. and not to light as opposed to darkness. and Air. emanate from the "Heavenly or Celestial Virgin. but with the inner invisible Spheres."the limbs of Microprosopos" in the Kabala. Water. or the ONE living God (!). as just said..) referred to the formation and evolution of the Sephiroth. the Microprosopus -. the Second are its MIND or Consciousness. philosophically speaking. or the central point in the Star."*** the great mother in all religions. a female Sephiroth. P. and ought never to be degraded into Microprosopus -. have played sad havoc with this magnificent symbol. etc. or our Earth. The later Kabalists however. "The 'First-Born' are the LIFE.. The six-pointed Star refers to the six Forces or Powers of Nature. Fire and AEther. The Kabala teaches that the word "Fiat Lux" (Genesis ch. etc. etc. the six planes. *** Sephira is the Crown. the latter by the hexagon itself. 1. principles. as a mathematical x (the unknown quantity). which are ten and six respectively.** Of this.05. i. ** The Microprosopus is. the Androgyne. In its Unity.
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[[Vol.The Secret Doctrine by H. of the Logos as the first emanation. AEther and Water. or the "Seven Sons. On the plane of differentiated nature she is the female counterpart of Adam Kadmon -.theosociety. or highest.* For the "ten limbs" of the Heavenly Man are the ten Sephiroth. and collectively the "Six-pointed Star. to be considered as one with Jehovah. All these.. vol. the light of the unmanifested Logos. 1. Page]] 216 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. later on. the "Bride" of the Christian Kabalists. all synthesized by the seventh. and of such there are many.has been finally brought. of sophistry and paradoxes. the upper and lower hierarchies included. especially the Christian mystics. Daiviprakriti. the Logos manifested.the lesser Face or Countenance. Hence the expressions: "The first after the 'One' is divine Fire. primordial light is the seventh. This fact cannot be too frequently impressed upon the reader. in almost every religion. or wheel).who is." The former is symbolised by the Central point in the double-Triangle." -." the "Great Illusion. the prototype of man on the terrestrial plane. the heart and pulse of the Universe. bk 1. quite distinct from the unmanifested eternal Logos "one with the Father."** as said in the Commentary. by centuries of incessant efforts. Blavatsky. sec 7
become distinct and separate Entities. These are called the "Virgins of Life. the fourth of Fire." The latter is the symbol.. and the glyph of the Tetragrammaton. the second. in the abstract principle only." etc.
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from whom will emanate the seven creations. those of Fire and AEther (corresponding to Spirit and Soul. Blavatsky. sec 7
(c) The second Order of Celestial Beings. Buddhi. companions. and yet it is from this and the mother that the Seven Divine Spirits are born. the Divine Soul. etc. which becomes differentiated matter. when. P. the ray which is furnished by them with its future vehicle. the mother.' And this is the two-fold man. but also of the Pradhana (undifferentiated matter).) This one is of dual nature. also the mineral realm. 1. These are directly concerned with the Hosts of the higher world of our system." or the creative potentiality of the latter made manifest.. (2. bk 1. and this is the sense of the words 'Let there be Light. Adam Kadmon verily. is still unconditioned. or the Atma-Buddhi) whose names are legion." (Auszuge aus dem Zohar.a misleading word. Air.
ascends and the female grosser or more material principle (In) is precipitated into the Universe of substance.) "The Spirit of the Vegetable Kingdom. The consciousness of the "One manifested. out of the chaotic mass." which is the creative logos of the noncreating "father.
[[Vol. or the world-stuff." They are the first differentiation in the Secondary Evolution or "Creation" -. when a separation occurs between the celestial and the terrestrial.htm (4 von 22) [06." of the "Abundant Vegetation. which differentiates. the first rudimentary objective being is born. and it was Light." (4. they are the prototypes of the incarnating Jivas or Monads. vol. pp. without form or sex. It is ethereal.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. (3. "The male aethereal" (Yo) principle
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http://www. In the cosmogony of Japan.theosociety. These elements of Fire. ** This "Consciousness" has no relation to our consciousness. an egglike nucleus appears.) "The Spirit (or the God) of the rayless depths" (of Chaos). but more definitely "substantial. It would be too long to give here the Japanese names. man as an emanation was both man and woman.) * See next footnote. From these twofold Units emanate the threefold. just as in the Codex Nazaraeus from Karabtanos and the Mother Spiritus the seven evilly disposed (material) spirits are born. it is the "three-fold" just named.) The "Invisible Celibate. From this the female. 1. like a pure solar beam.The Secret Doctrine by H. and are composed of the Fiery Spirit of Life. As the name shows. Mahat (the Universal Mind) is the first production of the Brahma-Creator. It is through these that passes. having within itself the germ and potency of all the universal as well as of all terrestrial life. are not our compound elements." if not absolute.05.2003 03:31:18]
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* It is worthy of notice that. perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water.) The Seventh Spirit. both for its Dhyanis and Atoms -. (Omoie). As seen above. In this duality were contained (a) the male. Elementals." the former containing the potentiality of the male element. Turning back to the esoteric explanations in every cosmogony: -(d) The Third order corresponds to the Atma-Buddhi-Manas: Spirit. the: -(5th and 6th. the rind that conceals the kernel of the same one truth of the Secret Doctrine. dark and muscular Being. etc. Blavatsky. It is the nursery of the human. These two were ONE. yet unconscious of being two. and Air.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. finally: -(7. the first group of the first septenary** host -.theosociety. progressing downwards. Soul and Intellect. as in the Puranas.
Such are the Japanese exoteric fables. adopting the phraseology of chemistry. 1. It was the seventh creation. Let it be remembered that Fire. This is the highest group among the Rupas (Atomic Forms*). having ever looked into the philosophy of these incorporeal Entities. These. owing to observation and discovery. Tsanagi-Tsanami." and constitute. or thought over them -.analogy being its first law. -. and dry land appeared. monatomic. are not the
http://www. through the order below their own." (e) The Fourth are substantial Entities.without. while rejecting as a superstition of Occultism. the two forming a combined nature. etc. bk 1.) Spirits who were androgynous or dual-sexed.The Secret Doctrine by H. P. vol. wherein man is the seventh creation of Brahma. They are called the "Imperishable Jivas.modern chemistry. Isu no gai no Kami. should have unconsciously been forced to adopt and recognize the same ratio of progression and order in the evolution of chemical atoms as Occultism does. conscious. the newly-created islandworld. and "Tsanagi. the theory of substantial and invisible Beings called Angels." Then the two separated to explore Onokoro. and is called the "Triads.htm (5 von 22) [06. Page]] 218 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. sec 7
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.the Being to whose essence it belongs. not a crocodile. But then. He is the "Dragon of Wisdom" or Manas. loosely translated "crocodile. is a dragon in reality. and psychic. the physical. or rather molecule or chemical element. This inner soul of the physical cell -. for were the scale of Angelic Beings to be placed on a parallel line with the scale of the chemical atoms of Science -.from the hypothetical Helium down to Uranium -they would of course be found to differ. and their abode is in Capricornus. Gerald Massey says. according to esoteric teaching. only to diagrams made by the Occultists. the psycho-mental from the Spiritual -. but noumenal homogeneous Elements -. This refers.tainted from its lower plane by the astral -." or the Ritual. proceeds on quite other lines. and which is the cause of the hereditary transmission of faculties and all the inherent qualities in man. of course.this "spiritual plasm" that dominates the germinal plasm -. P.which it may refuse to do. Page]] 219 THE HIERARCHIES OF SPIRITS.whose symbol is the pentagram or the five-pointed star. but seven groups or Hosts. 1. as to analogy. as explained before. it would have to correct its tabular arrangement by that of the Occultists -. vol. now called the dark mystery of Embryology.the Spirits thereof. That germ will become the spiritual potency in the physical cell that guides the development of the embryo. and above as below. In Esoteric Philosophy. in it. In Egypt the defunct man -. sec 7
compound Elements they are on Earth. as it is connected with the Microcosmic Pentagon. evolving gradually from the spiritual. if Chemistry desired to find itself on the right path. Blavatsky.theosociety. the Natures of those Beings would be seen to correspond in their downward scale of progression to composite elements in a mathematically identical manner. Says the defunct "Osirified" in ch. the points of which represent the limbs of a man -.the higher three principles in the atom. ** The number seven does not imply only seven Entities. For the latter are the field wherein lies concealed in its privation the germ that will fall into generation. however. For these have.) (f) The Fifth group is a very mysterious one. the five-pointed star representing man. the "Human Soul. Then follow the septenary groups or hosts. every physical particle corresponds to and depends on its higher noumenon -.
intellectual Being. called in our esoteric philosophy the "Fifth" principle. The Darwinian theory. showing it as having been the type of intelligence. is neither taught nor accepted in Occultism. bk 1.is the key that must open one day the gates of the terra incognita of the Biologist. of the transmission of acquired faculties. These are convertible terms in Indian astrology." Mind. and drawing its attributes from above as well as from below. In India and Egypt these Dhyanis were connected with the Crocodile. being perceptible only to the initiated Dangma's eye. lxxxviii.was shown emblematically transformed into a crocodile: Sebakh or Sevekh "or seventh. as this (tenth) sign of the Zodiac is called Makara.the whole animate and (seemingly) inanimate Nature evolving on parallel lines. 1.05. the Asuras born in Brahma's first body -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. as will be shown further on. mental. the Intelligent principle. (See text and note infra. Placed on parallel lines in a diagram with Atoms." as Mr.[[Footnote continued on next page]]
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are septenary. divine companion watching over my fleshes (bodies). and made one with Atma-Buddhi after the death of man. Atma. while the water is the fifth principle esoterically. .. bk 1. Thou art my personality within my breast. esoteric Buddhism. . which merges into. is absorbed by. or angels of every theogony). . divided like the Pitris into seven classes. . I know this (chapter). . (2) "I am the fish of the great Horus (as Mankara is the "crocodile. Book I. Gerald Massey shows that the crocodile was "the Seventh Soul.* In all the ancient papyri the crocodile is called Sebek (Seventh). Mr. as already stated.theosociety.htm (7 von 22) [06. the defunct says: -"Oh my heart." . and repeats the doctrine of. . . addressing in magic formula that which is called." or the real man concealed under the false personality. ." Even exoterically Sekhem is the residence of the god Khem. vol." This last sentence gives the corroboration of. Blavatsky. I am the god-crocodile brought for destruction" (an allusion to the destruction of divine spiritual purity
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when man acquires the knowledge of good and evil. ." It is in Sekhem that lies concealed "the Mysterious Face.the Seer unseen. or the most spiritual part of its essence rather. . the triple-crocodile of Egypt. the permanent EGO. hence the "Devachan" of Atma-Buddhi. 1. . at the arrival of his Soul among men.)
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. 1. . I am merged in Sekten. in Egyptian esotericism. i. ." or the re-incarnating principle.The Secret Doctrine by H. for it alludes directly to the fifth principle (Manas). the symbol of the higher Trinity or human Triad. and Khem is Horus avenging the death of his father Osiris. . and. the supreme one of seven -. Buddhi and Manas. . (See Vishnu Purana. the "ancestral heart. ." the vehicle of Varuna). And in verse 35. or Father and Son). takes all kinds of living forms. also to the "fallen" gods. sec 7
mummiform god with a crocodile's head: -(1) "I am the god (crocodile) presiding at the fear . three of which are arupa (bodiless) and four with bodies.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. Page]] 220 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. In the Ritual of the Dead the defunct is shown entering into Sekhem with Horus-Thot and "emerging from it as pure spirit" (lxiv. my ancestral heart necessary for my transformations. as various) men transforming eternally . .05. 29). . (See Book II. . . Thus the defunct
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The fifth group of the celestial Beings is supposed to contain in itself the dual attributes of both the spiritual and physical aspects of the Universe. vol. the lower of which are the NatureSpirits. sec 7
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"Osirified" became the god Khem. who "gleans the field of Aanroo. as the doctrine teaches. The mummy donned the head of a crocodile to show that it was a soul arriving from the earth. (g) The sixth and seventh groups partake of the lower qualities of the Quaternary. Gods. superior worlds. Such a class of beings.the ideal THOUGHTS of their creators -. it was like the arrival on earth and among men "of the divine soul which informs the Gods. and the dual nature of man. composed of the elect ones of our mankind. When the sun arose. and will make room for a new hierarchy." i. 1. invisible organisms. would evince no personal merit in being gods. Hence its number Five. The crocodile is the first to await and meet the devouring fires of the morning sun.2003 03:31:18]
. so to say. but because it is superior in quality or essence. the spiritual and the physical. which are shot out like the boughs of a tree from the first central group of the four. 1.down to the Atomic. as invisible as Ether. Being is an endless cycle within the one absolute eternity. he gleans either his reward or punishment. connecting it with Makara. perfect only by virtue of the special immaculate nature inherent in them.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11.." Hence the strange symbolism.sentient." and located above our heads. he cannot be born or appear suddenly on the plane of life as a full-blown angel. and very soon came to personify the solar heat.The Secret Doctrine by H. and shoot out in their turn numberless side groups. A Dhyan Chohan has to become one.e.theosociety. or Elementals of countless kinds and varieties. the 10th sign of Zodiac.05. whether in our or in other systems. as that field is the celestial locality (Devachan) where the defunct is given wheat. They are all subject to Karma. the two poles. wherein move numberless inner cycles finite and conditioned. For. created as such. 1. the food of divine justice. They are conscious. The latter are considered as the "Spirits of Atoms" for they are the first remove (backwards) from the physical Atom -. of Mahat the Universal Intelligence. in the outer or the inner worlds. though. to human perception. would be the
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Therefore the "Four" and the "Three" have to incarnate as all other beings have. AND LIFE SURVIVES THE LAST ATOM (of Form. when we consider that process known as the growth and development of a foetus into a healthy baby weighing several pounds evolves from what? From the segmentation of an infinitesimally small ovum and a spermatozoon. Science has provided for all this. moreover.* Alone. the "Ancestors. This sixth group. though necessarily imperfect. where the son is (in one way) his father. into the visible and objective.Continued.
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." or angels. 1." But one has to go deep into the mystery of BEING before one can fully comprehend this truth.theosociety. sec 7
symbol of an eternal injustice quite Satanic in character. as already explained elsewhere -. her theories. as all our available analogies must be. I dare say. 1. and physiological. I would ask whether it seems unnatural. being his blood. the five middle human principles being the very essence of those Dhyanis. minus the physical body. and. from the -. having the six spiritual Elements in the composition of their bodies -.have never been properly answered.htm (9 von 22) [06. or his spirit and body.The Secret Doctrine by H. Before resorting to it. can this be explained? By resorting to a simile.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. who draws from it all but his highest and lowest principles. vol. Nevertheless. embryological. When asked how that can be? How is it possible to conceive that those "gods. Page]] 223 THE MYSTERY OF BEING.a purely Vedantic one." to any one of us. How.to the naked eye -unseen. the Pitris.
expansion from the microscopically small into something very large. LIKE A THREAD THROUGH MANY BEADS (pearls) (a). bk 1. nor will they ever be solved
http://www. THE ONE RAY MULTIPLIES THE SMALLER RAYS.05.in fact. the "Guardian Angels. an ever present crime. the bone of his bone and the flesh of his flesh? To this the teachers answer "Verily it is so. remains almost inseparable from man. men. P. moral or mental -. biological. the Divine Ray (the Atman) proceeds directly from the One. THE ONE. can be at the same time their own emanations and their personal selves? Is it in the same sense in the material world. THROUGH THE COUNTLESS RAYS THE LIFE-RAY. what are the forces at work in the formation of the foetus. Blavatsky. and afterwards we see that baby develop into a sixfoot man! This refers to the atomic and physical
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* The materialists and the evolutionists of the Darwinian school would be ill-advised to accept the newly worked-out theories of Professor Weissmann. the evolution of the human-spiritual to the Divine-Spiritual. and so on. Science will have stepped over into the domain of the truly occult. and when this almost correct theory is accepted. mentioned in the last foot-note. with regard to one of the two mysteries of Embryology. as taught by Darwin. either the substance of the germinal cell is endowed with the faculty of crossing the whole cycle of transformations that lead to the construction of a separate organism and then to the reproduction of identical germinal cells. except in so far as it puzzles the Embryologists. but fell from the clouds. Complete the physical plasm. P. why should our intellectual and inner growth. and psychic characteristics. those germinal cells do not have their genesis at all in the body of the individual. by means of constant segmentation and multiplication. as above specified.at one time a fervent Darwinist -. or seem. It is that cell which impresses on the face and form of the new individual the features of the parents or of some distant ancestor. how will Biologists explain the first appearance of this everlasting cell? Unless man "grew" like the "immortal Topsy.htm (10 von 22) [06. and stepped for ever out of the realm of transformation. This Plasm is the immortal portion of our bodies -simply through the process of successive assimilations. "When the seed of the animal man is cast into the soil of the animal woman. how was that embryological cell born in him?
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http://www. Blavatsky. determining alone and unaided. more impossible than the other? Now to the simile. right back into the teachings of the old Aryans -. the author of Beitrage zur Descendenzlehre. For.theosociety." so to say. or the fluid that contains the five lower principles of the six-principled Dhyan -. from the standpoint of materialism. It is the latter hypothesis that Weissmann accepted and has worked upon. it is that cell again which transmits to him the intellectual and mental idiosyncracies of his sires. it is incapable of accounting for hereditary transmission.The Secret Doctrine by H. it solves all these mysteries.
menon astonishes no one. bk 1. and it is to this cell that he traces the immortal portion of man. 1. but proceed directly from the ancestral germinal cell passed from father to son through long generations.05. The two are irreconcileable. So far. the "Germinal Cell" of man with all its material potentialities.one infinitesimal cell. Those who are not acquainted with the new discovery of Professor Weissman -. which he seems to have solved -as he thinks. Page]] 224 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11.ought to hasten to repair the deficiency. There are but two ways of explaining the mystery of heredity. The German Embryologistphilosopher shows -. mental. Regarded from that of the Occultists. 1.and you have the secret.2003 03:31:18]
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till the day when scientists condescend to accept the Occult theories.thus stepping over the heads of the Greek Hippocrates and Aristotle. be regarded as.

which ensures to man alone a divine degree of immortality.The Secret Doctrine by H. so arbitrarily changed into the singular masculine gender. and spiritual nature. and occasionally and singly. Then: "The functions of Jiva on this Earth are of a five-fold character. the "Macrocosm.) Man is. psychic. but his creators and fashioners were many. could only throw off their shadows. (See Book II. As to his seventh principle.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. commissioned to "create" man in their image. the vehicles of some of them. in its qualitative and physical aspect it is the direct progeny of the "Ancestors. a congenital idiot. 1. men are the handiwork of hosts of various spirits. with their second -. growing and developing with the globe that bore them. is the offspring of the Elohim of Life (or Pitris). shadowy form. Book I. Wherefore the Microcosm is represented as a Pentagon. distributively. P." the lowest Dhyanis. or the emanation from the principles) of the six-fold Heavenly man.htm (11 von 22) [06. nor could he ever be.* This sentence will be explained later on in the present Commentary. Each rational creature receives only the temporary loan of that which has to return to its source. not the divine Spirit or Ruach. the earthly Spirit of the
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germinate unless it has been fructified by the five virtues (the fluid of. namely. bringing Humanity back on a parallel line with the primitive third RootRace in Spirituality. In our present all-material Fifth Race.the Prana (life). bk 1." Omnipresent though invisible. Blavatsky. the name and characteristics of which will be given in Book II. vol. in the animal. Chaldean Book of Numbers).05. and unless the same operation is attributed to "God" on behalf of every living Soul -. but the physical improvement took place at the expense of the spiritual inner man and nature. in man. it is indebted to a group of divine Beings. Otherwise he will be born no higher than an animal". but we are approaching the time when the pendulum of evolution will direct its swing decidedly upwards. the tabernacles of those hosts." unless that God is identified with the "ONE LIFE. in the vegetable particle. It comes to this: Mankind in its first prototypal. or Spirits of the Earth.). The three middle principles in earth and man became with every race more material.
Fourth is still strong in us. who were the indwelling Spirits that animated the monstrous and gigantic tabernacles of clay of the Fourth Race built by (as they are now also) and composed of countless myriads of lives. with all these plus the third and the fourth. which is the vital Soul. the Soul stepping back to make room for the physical intellect. while his physical body is shaped by the lowest terrestrial lives. could ever attain in this cycle of
http://www. The "tabernacles" have improved in texture and symmetry of form. the germ must receive the fruition of all the five. within the Hexagon Star. like a delicate model for the Nature Spirits of matter to work upon. that no animal. but he is the child of the Elohim. mankind was composed wholly of that Angelic Host. as such.") a work on Occult Embryology. beyond any doubt. the essence of elements becoming the material and composite elements now known. for its moral. Page]] 225 SPIRIT FALLING INTO MATTER. Thus in man alone the Jiva is complete. it is but one of the Beams of the Universal Sun. Nor can it be said that the "Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. In the mineral atom it is connected with the lowest principles of the Spirits of the Earth (the six-fold Dhyanis).2003 03:31:18]
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It is the inadequate distinctions made by the Jews. and being unable to understand. was lost sight of. not knowing of. dimly perceiving the truth. and mental relations with man's physical functions is in almost inextricable confusion. in translating verse 8 of Ch.
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* Science.thus confuse the "breath of life" with immortal Spirit. and see in them but occasional and abnormal visitors to which diseases are attributed. may find Bacteria and other infinitesimals in the human body.* This applies also directly to the Protestant theologians. for it is based on the erroneous conception that Prana and Atma or Jivatma are one and the same thing. and now by our Western metaphysicians. Indeed the verse is made to say "The wind bloweth where it listeth. the infusion of the Spirit or Breath of Life into the quickening body of man. III. No Eastern (Aryan) esoteric works are so far published. the Soul (which he seems to place higher than the spirit) is developed -considered functionally and from the standpoint of activity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. whether in a mineral or human body. and humanity on the other.
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. Page]] 226 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. he thinks. bk 1.with the Jews undeniably. and with the Greeks and Romans very probably -. or. more than a triune man -. on the one plane. in air. ought to be viewed as a matrix in which. Failing which. fire or water -.The Secret Doctrine by H.htm (12 von 22) [06. spiritual." as in the original and also in the translation of the Greek Eastern Church. hence to accept.the Soul. the Greek word Anemos (wind) and the Latin Anima "Soul" having a suspicious relation. and was to supersede and take the place of that spirit in the thus constituted self. Occultism -which discerns a life in every atom and molecule. Ruach. and disappeared in the living Soul. who.05. 1." instead of "the Spirit goeth where it willeth.meant Wind. have entirely perverted the meaning. in the Fourth Gospel.affirms that our whole body is built of such lives. the Vedantic quinquepartite division of the human inner principles.
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incarnation.
http://www. according to the Hebrews. and from which. 1. Pneuma and Spiritus -. Neither the old Aryan. or was produced by.theosociety. he says. it will be for ever impossible to understand the metaphysical and purely psychic and even physiological relations between the Dhyan-Chohans. The author supports the argument by showing that with the ancient Hebrews. vol. "is ultimately produced from the animated body of man. Thus the philosophy of psychic. Blavatsky. so that the spirit passed into." Thus the author identifies "Spirit" (Atma) simply with "the breath of life. but we possess the Egyptian papyri which speak clearly
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P. For what is the Tiaou? The frequent allusion to it in the "Book of the Dead" contains a mystery. the Manes will be annihilated. This "Soul" emerges from the Tiaou (the realm of the cause of life) and joins the living on Earth by day. The seven rays of the Chaldean Heptakis or Iao.. This expresses the periodical existences of the Ego.** Like alone produces like. for the cycle of necessity.The Secret Doctrine by H. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. the psychic Shadow. A legitimate battle-field for deciding this question is hardly to be found. bk 1. remind those who try to prove that the ancient Egyptians knew nothing of and did not teach Reincarnation. but the Soul-bird. that the "Soul" (the Ego or Self) of the defunct is said to be living in Eternity: it is immortal. "devoured by the Uraeus" (cxlix. TahtEsmun. to return to Tiaou every night. of which he was the manifestor as the eighth one (hence the eighth sphere). and disappearing with the Solar boat.05. of all those principles -. a kind of Kabalist-Positivist." the divisions made respectively by Messrs. are all Idealists." i. cvxliii.
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This is very far fetched. SPIRIT (Atman) is one -and indiscrete. moreover. Blavatsky. Tiaou is the path of the Night Sun. in their
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.e.htm (13 von 22) [06. The former call the Pitris "the lunar ancestors" of men. for they are their mother's husbands. The Occultists are also of the extreme esoteric Vedantin school. Gerald Massey and Franz Lambert.theosociety. "The first form of the mystical SEVEN was seen to be
http://www."* The Book of the Dead gives a complete list of the "transformations" that every defunct undergoes. the gods (Dhyanis) his five inner principles. while divesting himself. the Great Breath and the Whirlwind. the inferior hemisphere. the astral form.and the Uraeus of Flame" (Manas and Atma-Buddhi) will live in the eternity. 51). "the divine Swallow -." . . This "moon-god" "expressed the Seven nature-powers that were prior to himself. is annihilated. and were summed up in him as his seven souls. "The Seven Souls of Man. and the Egyptians made of the Moon-God. Pratt seems to be a practical.
of the seven principles or the "Seven Souls of Man. 1..materialised for the sake of clearness into ethereal entities or bodies.

The Secret Doctrine by H. 5) it is said: -. Open me the Tiaou. the armies of the ragged and the poor were taught Astrology -. then there would be little need to fear increase of the population nor to resort to the questionable literature of the Malthusians for its arrest. Osiris-Lunus! That renews to thee thy renewal. the Sun. because the moon was the symbol of life-renewals or reincarnations. In the Dankmoe. and psychical at once)." and the father. . 1.. waning. xliii. Artemis. sec 7
figured in heaven. he crossed the whole cycle of existence and then returned to his birth-place before issuing from it again. .
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. which relates to Occult Knowledge. ch. as the God of life and reproduction. when the moon became connected with female goddesses** -. physiological.so far.e. life is promised after death.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. -.theosociety. who.with Diana. Thus Soma is. at any rate. which is an allegorical assimilation to Ra.
http://www." Says Osiris: "Oh. albeit illegitimate. ii. Blavatsky. a kind of sidereal Don Juan. P.) shows the Egyptians celebrating a festival called "The Ingress of Osiris into the moon. ." ch. as the occult properties of the Moon and its hidden influences on generation are concerned. . and as such is called Riksha. "Etudes Egyptologiques"): "Couplings and conceptions abound when he (OsirisLunus) is seen in heaven on that day. and of the seven elemental powers. Pierret. Page]] 229 MANY STREAMS. by the seven large stars of the Great Bear. I will issue by day to do what I have to do amongst the living" ("Book of the Dead. inhabits the moon. then having crossed the Noot (the celestial abyss). (iv. and reappearance every month.") ** If instead of being taught in Sunday Schools useless lessons from the Bible. 1.)."Oh.i. dying. Osiris was "God manifest in generation. bk 1." And Safekh says to Seti I.
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primarily. These "Father and Son" were interchangeable in their functions and worked harmoniously together in their effects upon terrestrial nature and humanity. though TWO in personified Entities.as in the Hebrew Scriptures -. not divine life of that nation. was the concealed Spirit or Breath of the two. not particular." To this the Eastern Occultist replies: Quite so. 1. the Elohim or Dhyanis are no more an abstraction than our soul and spirit are to us. But even now those sins of old. which are perpetrated because of the complete ignorance of. They were both males. and thus knew that the Sun and Moon. -.since that which is the surviving Entity in us is partly the direct emanation from. P.2003 03:31:18]
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Juno. hence they were regarded as ONE. based on the Occult knowledge and the abuse of it. (the astroDhyanic and) Elohistic figures. bk 1.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11.theosociety. no knowledge of symbols -. there were the Occult mysteries of Anthropography and the primeval genesis of man. would appear preferable to the crimes of to-day. but. To our spiritual perceptions.htm (15 von 22) [06. those who indulged in marital relations during certain lunar phases that made those relations sterile were regarded as sorcerers and sinners. the living and intelligent Powers which the Occultists call Dhyan Chohans.. or can help. that is. however. Nevertheless. and disbelief in all such occult influences.which became in our last races theological and dogmatic. and to our inner spiritual eye. tangible [by their effects] psychic and physiological deities -. a very learned admirer of the Jewish Esotericism tells us that "the Kabala says expressly that Elohim is a 'general abstraction'. 1. so to say.
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these agents being. There were things never recorded in scrolls. But. Blavatsky.the Father and the Son. etc. by the general ratio 1 to 31415. and both had their distinct and also collaborative work in the causative generation of Humanity. while Space and air in general. often relating. But behind this veil of Cosmic and Astrological symbols.merely to the terrestrial human.or even the key to the post-diluvian symbolical language of the Jews -. save only with reference to that which was laid down in national scriptures for exoteric uses. it is an abstraction to our physical senses. what we call in mathematics 'a constant co-efficient' or a 'general function' entering into all construction. in truth. and every astrologer in India knows it. That psychic and spiritual element belonged to MYSTERY and INITIATION. physical as much as psychic. vol. and partly
http://www. was only the smallest portion of the real primitive history of each people. on rocks and in subterranean crypts. however cleverly veiled. the sum of which. Reject the one and you reject the other -. As to this. at least at the beginning of this one. that connection was due to a thorough knowledge of physiology and female nature. the Sun and Moon were the only visible and. there was a time when the whole world was "of one lip and of one knowledge.The Secret Doctrine by H." and Man knew more of his origin than he does now.
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then and then only the Occultist will be ready to pass the palm of perfection to the Kabalist. or. incubated through Light. tribal. a sub-occult meaning in it. CALLED SAPTAPARNA (b). and still gives out the same doctrine that we do. they knew little of. the Thought Divine. through the effulgence of the Ray of Primordial light dissipating total darkness by the help of the great magic power of the WORD of the (Central) Sun. the real divine Occultism. is still more difficult to comprehend. P." "Osiris-Ptah (or RA) creates his own limbs (like Brahma) by creating the gods destined to personify his phases" during the Cycle (xvii. of Theogony. has still another. in the words of the "Book of the Dead". and a reality only when put in his proper place as an emanation and a Sephiroth -. The meaning of the Stanza when explained from another standpoint in its reference to the mystery of man and his origin. Therefore. at any rate). when it is proved to us that the Kabalistic identification of Jehovah with Binah. Blavatsky.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. the Purusha. and refers to the very beginning of Evolution. bk 1. is the Divine Universal Soul in its manifested aspect. and the curses thundered by them against the "stiffnecked race. "Chaos ceases. 1. just as in "Pymander. and men. it is asserted that. i. gave out originally. (a) "When the ONE becomes two. a metaphysical figment. a female Sephiroth. it makes Man emanate.the first attempt to sketch out an approximate outline of archaic Cosmogony -. Until then. The Egyptian Ra. but from a Septenary group of Celestial men or Angels.. AND IT IS OUR THREAD. as Jehovah is in the abstract sense of a "one living God. and Water." If he refers to "Esoteric Buddhism" -."
STANZA VII. with the exception of some of their great prophets and seers like Daniel and Ezekiel (Enoch belonging to a far distant race and not to any nation but to all. but." But even the Kabala plainly shows the direct relation between the Sephiroth. as we should rather say.witness their own prophets. Page]] 231 THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE "ONE. THE HEART OF THE MAN-PLANT. O LANOO. the Jews were perfectly acquainted with sorcery and various maleficent forces.e. nor would they deal with. the three-fold appears": to wit.htm (16 von 22) [06." the student has to make himself thoroughly acquainted with what we call "Rounds. and the "three-fold being issues as its First-born.Continued. that reflection. issuing from the DEEP. sec 7
those celestial Entities themselves.. "the Ray. and individual benefits -. In order to form a clear conception of what is meant by the One becoming two." differentiates the "Water of Space". and then being transformed into the "three-fold. and so is Narayana. -. 1." Chaos becomes male-female. as a generic character). their national character being averse to anything which had no direct bearing upon their own ethnical. (3) WHEN THE ONE BECOMES TWO -. or.2003 03:31:18]
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vegetable. which. though. bk 1. or Z. When evolution has run downward into matter. it is written: "In the Egyptian notions. from planet A to planet G. upon the diagram representing the "chain. The latter would be called by the Brahmins "a Day of Brahma. for it is they who. [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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. just enough to make the Stanza more comprehensible. one revolution of the "Wheel" (our planetary chain). nevertheless. in short. which is our present "Round": "Evolution has reached its acme of physical development. Evolution spiritualises and etherealises. Comm. Blavatsky. man was not merely . Vol. begins its work spirit-ward. on this our present
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] as the evolution on these globes is cyclic. On its way upwards on the ascending arc. as every globe -. ." in another sense this time)." It is." All this needs little repetition. sec 7
of the seven globes of our chain* with their mineral. and animal kingdoms (man being there included in the latter and standing at the head of it) during the whole period of a life-cycle. is the origin of man. formed in succession the six material worlds." the seventh and the lowest." so-called. Speaking of the Elohim in Vol. and terrestrial intelligence and a sixth
http://www. there are many passages. as the Western students call it. "Isis Unveiled." That which was hardly touched upon." Though in that work the doctrine could only be hinted at. 1. on the three higher planes. bringing it on to a level with the plane on which the twin globe on the opposite side is placed.plus. in which the septenary constitution of both man and chain is openly mentioned. the general nature of all. 6). and of which the little that was said has misled many. Page]] 232 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.is a grosser and more material copy of the more shadowy sphere which precedes it in their successive order.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11.05. crowned its work with the perfect physical man. from this point.htm (17 von 22) [06. or rather. a new and superior degree in the states of consciousness.
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* Several inimical critics are anxious to prove that no seven principles of man nor septenary constitution of our chain were taught in our earlier volume. the result being. the animal soul. and it is upon this that a little more light may now be thrown. vol. they say. P. it is one Round. as in those of all other faiths founded on philosophy. And again. as the process will be fully explained only in its legitimate place. or shadow. in Book II. of course. Now every "Round" (on the descending scale) is but a repetition in a more concrete form of the Round which preceded it. he was a trinity when spirit was added to it. page 420. so to speak. astral form.. it is said: "They remain over the seventh heaven (or spiritual world). 1. according to the Kabalists.down to our fourth sphere (the actual earth) -.. the higher soul.The Secret Doctrine by H. that when the seventh globe is reached (in whatever Round) the nature of everything that is evolving returns to the condition it was in at its starting point -.theosociety. (See diagram in Stanza VI. and besides that doctrine made him consist of body. and.

and who.. etc.believes in creation out of nihil as Christians and Jews do.e. must occupy the same place in the same order -. its status and functions in the supersensuous regions. and that only as a "function of the Brain.a Nirmanakaya.\"Six principles of man" -. To put it more clearly: the invisible Entity may be bodily present on earth without abandoning.The Secret Doctrine by H. one finds on page 683: -.on the downward scale of Spirituality -.save details based on local conditions and time -.2003 03:31:18]
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Round. If this needs explanation.to inform the empty and ethereal animal form and make of it the Rational Man. it must be explained and remembered that.05. Page]] 233 WHAT INCARNATES IN ANIMAL MAN. It becomes the task of the fifth Hierarchy -. It is a MYSTERY.htm (18 von 22) [06.**
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http://www. for all that. in the infinitudes of Space. since the beginning of his appearance.the seventh -. and condense his physical body -this Sixth group evolves no more than the future man's shadowy form.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. a filmy. Page]] 234 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. ** The so-called "Spirits" that may occasionally possess themselves of the bodies of mediums are not the Monads or Higher Principles of disembodied personalities. i. though such cases are very rare.the seventh being the synthesis of the six. as no religion.
[[Vol. or life-cycle on this planet. hardly visible transparent copy of themselves. but only to him who is prepared to reject the existence of intellectual and conscious spiritual Beings in the Universe. P. 1. bk 1. .the mysterious beings that preside over the constellation Capricornus." so is that of every globe. but in evolution out of preexisting materials. Such a "Spirit" can only be either an Elementary. or -. and not a principle but a ray of the Absolute ALL -. yet it evolved shadowy man in this cycle just as a higher and still more spiritual group evolved him in the Third Round. not even the sect of the Visishta Adwaitees in India -.the last and seventh being the terrestrial Spirits (elementals) which gradually form. or "Crocodile" in India as in Egypt -. 1. But as it is the Sixth -. Makara.in strict truth. limiting full Consciousness to man alone. we can do no better than remind the reader of like cases in Spiritualism." So clearly are these principles mentioned. Blavatsky.
[[Vol. who have incarnated bodily in man. it is under the supervision and guidance of special "Builders" and "Watchers" -. -.SPIRIT. 1. This is one of those subjects upon which very little may be said to the general public. . then. truly." Many are those among the Spiritual Entities.theosociety. build.one which anthropomorphises even Parabrahmam -. Again. however. sec 7
principle. . The group of the hierarchy which is commissioned to "create"* men is a special group. etc.

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or taking temporary possession of a medium. hardly more perfect than his pithecoid-like ancestor of the third round. could die and man be still living on earth -.htm (19 von 22) [06. the most rarified finding their home in its satellite." This relates exclusively to our Elementary Spirits.05." the Author states the Kabalistic teaching: "They held that. Spirit and Matter of corresponding opacity and density tended to coalesce. while its body goes on living on Earth. and therefore tended towards the centre of the Earth. This was the belief of the Antediluvians. Blavatsky. were constituted on a scale in which the differing opacities and transparencies of Elemental or uncreated Spirit were reproduced. is.The Secret Doctrine by H. reverting to parallel cases among living persons -. that which living men (Initiates)
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. or through the power of acquired mystic knowledge. etc.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. in his outward form.men and women. P. philosophically considered. and that in the intimate association between the Spirit-world and the world of Matter. vol. busied themselves solely with the spirits of the Planets and the "Elementals" so-called.. while the body is many miles away. spiritual and physical depravity.. or instinct. He is a living body. This was so well understood by the Ancients that the Kabalist even made of soul and body two lives.e. independent of each other. digested and assimilated Elemental Spirit and Elemental Matter whose condition was conformed to their own.i. Therefore this covers only a portion of the Esoteric Teaching." "They therefore taught that there was a wide difference in the condition of created Spirits. the eternal Spiritual Ego) dwelling in the unseen worlds. can do still better. and has naught to do with either the Planetary.** Therefore. Cosmic or Inter-Etheric Intelligent Forces or "Angels" as they are termed by the Roman Church. who have no physical body to hamper them. in Spiritualism.
http://www. the "Ego-Sum.e.theosociety. not a living being. 1. 340-351 (Genesis of the Soul) in the "New Aspects of Life. Just as certain persons -. the Dhyanis. Sidereal. 1. is a pre-eminently occult doctrine. can be seen in their "double" in one place. in the disembodied state. bk 1. And that these Spirits in the disembodied state attracted. especially in Chinese and Buddhist philosophy. appropriated. i.such as insanity. Page]] 235 DII SUNT DEMONES INVERSI. and an animal can only have direct consciousness. [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. where they found the conditions most suited to their state. See "Isis Unveiled. Man." vol.. whose body vehicle is the Astral. the more opaque Spirits in the disembodied state were drawn towards the more dense parts of the material world. and that the resultant created Spirits. since the realisation of existence. while the more transparent Spirits passed into the surrounding aura of the planet. ** The possibility of the "Soul" (i.whether by virtue of a peculiar organization. ethero-substantial envelope. especially the practical Occultists who dealt with ceremonial magic. functionally. The Jewish Kabalists.
can do. simply an animal. and it is fast becoming that of modern intellectual society. the soul could free itself from and quit the tabernacle for various reasons -.* The soul.

but every human being. and it is in this sense that the Roman Catholic Church tries to interpret and teach the difference. But there is still as little cause to regard them as devils. 1.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. and this is precisely what the Roman Catholics maintain against all reason and logic. alluded to already in this work. who makes an evident distinction between the archangels and the "Archontes. ('The World-Pillars. made in the names and individualities.. and when the latter reach from Satyayuga (the first stage) to the heroic period. or rebirths on this Earth (an allusion to Sutratma). The Zoroastrians regarded their Amshaspends as dual entities (Ferouers). to the distinction made between the degrees or orders of spiritual beings. for the occurrence is found to take place in wicked materialists as well as in persons "who advance in holiness and never turn back.htm (20 von 22) [06. are double -. ch. Paul. for it means simply the reverse or the opposite side of some attribute or quality.a fiend. the Root Manu being the Prime Cause. of course. their doubles are denounced by her as devils. Thus the seven Manus become 14. which teach the ubiquity of their angels.theosociety. 3.2003 03:31:18]
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actualities.* But the word "ferouer" is not to be understood in this sense. 1. P. for an illustration. which prototype is the highest essence of his seventh principle." Such is also the opinion of Jamblichus.') mentioned likewise by St. of the Rishis and the Prajapatis. ii. the thread on which moreover all his
http://www. and the other to guide and watch over the worlds of matter. p. Not only those progenitors of our mankind. especially between those of the Satyayuga and the Mahabharatan period.in esoteric philosophy." (See ibid and also "Isis.as described in Theology -.05. Hence a certain reason to depreciate a lower "double. for he says: "In these oracles the seven Cosmocratores of the world. the reverse of the medal)." immersed far deeper in matter than its original. "On the primitive Manus of humanity").one set being commissioned to rule the superior worlds the spiritual and the sidereal. It also throws additional light on what the Secret Doctrine teaches with regard to the Root and the Seed Manus (see Book ii. ii. he does not mean two separate
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] p." (See "De Mysteriis. at any rate -. as well as the numbers. 369.. these Manus or Rishis become 21 in number. Many are the Soulless men among us.) The above may be applied. for while the archangels are in her teaching divine and holy. (b) The concluding sentence of this sloka shows how archaic is the belief and the doctrine that man is seven-fold in his constitution. Blavatsky. vol. has its prototype in the Spiritual Spheres. but the two aspects or facets of the same Unity. we are taught.to all the spiritual and invisible denizens of the numberless worlds in space which are visible to our eye. Thus when the Occultist says that the "Demon is the lining of God" (evil. sec 7
besides the Greek and Roman Churches. side by side with an Archangel -. In a note of Damascius (sixth century) on the Chaldean oracles.
[[Vol. and the "Seed-Manu" its effect. we have a triple evidence of the universality of this doctrine." sec. bk 1. Page]] 236 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.The Secret Doctrine by H.) * This identity between the Spirit and its material "double" (in man it is the reverse) explains still better the confusion. The thread of being which animates man and passes through all his personalities. Now the best man living would appear.

" i. 4. THE WICKS ARE THE SPARKS. as said in the hymn." and terrestrial mortals. XX. the reader is referred to Part II. THEIR FLAME. "Book of the Dead. THE BEAMS AND SPARKS OF ONE MOON REFLECTED IN THE RUNNING WAVES OF ALL THE RIVERS OF THE EARTH ("Bhumi. 1.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-11. Panchasikha.2003 03:31:18]
. as the harvest they have sown by their actions in life. For. THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME OF THE FOUR WICKS* (a) . and man is compared to the seven-leaved plant of this name* so sacred among Buddhists.the fruition of the latter assimilated by the first two after every terrestrial life. The deceased is allotted a piece of land in the field of Aanroo. i." the "fourfold" and the "fivefold". (see chap. . We shall see further on. vol. the deified shades of the dead. (a) The "Three-tongued flame" that never dies is the immortal spiritual triad -. Meanwhile it is evident that "the Man-Plant. This corn is the food on which they live and prosper. or becomes pure spirit for the Eternity.
STANZA VII." says the defunct.. or that will kill them. 25-28). etc. on Symbolism: Sections on "Saptaparna." and the "Mysteries of Ro-stan. xxxii.e. wherein the Manes. thus refers to the seven principles. which grows in a territory divided into 14 and 7 portions.the Atma-Buddhi and Manas -. 9) the deceased is either destroyed therein. 1. is one of the seven Kumaras who go to Sveta-Dvipa to worship Vishnu. agreeably to Bhagavata Purana (V. who refuse "to multiply. "I enter into the domain of Sekhem (the God whose arm sows the seed of action produced by the disembodied soul) and I enter the region of the Flames who have destroyed their adversaries.
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"Spirits" are strung -. For further details as to Saptaparna and the importance of the number seven in occultism.. THAT DRAW FROM THE THREE-TONGUED FLAME (their upper triad) SHOT OUT BY THE SEVEN. P. the corn seven cubits high. are the four lower principles. glean..") (b) Just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining. in consequence of the "Seven times seventy-seven lives" passed or to be passed on Earth.
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* The Egyptian allegory in the "Book of the Dead" already mentioned.Continued. Page]] 237 THE IMMORTAL ROOT.is spun from the essence of the "threefold. Blavatsky." "The Septenary in the Vedas. "I am the three-wicked Flame and my wicks are immortal." (See chap." or "Prithivi")** (b). what connection there is between the "celibate" and chaste sons of Brahma. the hymn that relates to the reward "of the Soul." Saptaparna. IT IS THE ROOT THAT NEVER DIES. The idea of the corn reaped as the "fruit of our actions" is very graphic. which contain all the preceding.. The "four wicks" that go out and are extinguished.The Secret Doctrine by H.the illusive envelopes of the immortal MONADhttp://www. as well as in symbology. including the body." etc. .. bk 1. in Amenti. vii.htm (21 von 22) [06.05. Book II. so our evanescent personalities -." is as suggestive of our Septenary Doctrine as it is poetical. the realm of which the Aanroo field is a domain. got rid of the sin-creating "four wicks.

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P. The reincarnationists and believers in Karma alone dimly perceive that the whole secret of Life is in the unbroken series of its manifestations: whether in. bk 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. WHO FORMS HIM? THE SEVEN LIVES.htm (1 von 27) [06. Blavatsky -.Vol. vol. THE PLANT WHIRLS THROUGH SEVEN FORMS AND BECOMES A SACRED ANIMAL. the Flame. the MONAD in conjunction with MANAS. This relates to the greatest problem of philosophy -.A PLANT. like a dome of many-coloured glass.Continued. and hangs from Atma-Buddhi.the physical and substantial nature of life.
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The Secret Doctrine by H. IT STOPS IN THE FIRST (Kingdom). (a) The phrase "through the seven Worlds of Maya" refers here to the seven globes of the planetary chain and the seven rounds. (5) THE SPARK HANGS FROM THE FLAME BY THE FINEST THREAD OF FOHAT. the physical body. Page]] 238 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. WHO COMPLETES HIM? THE FIVEFOLD LHA. for life alone can understand life. Stains the white radiance of Eternity" -yet it is itself part and parcel of that Eternity. The "thread of Fohat" is the thread of life before referred to. the independent nature of which is denied by modern science because that science is unable to comprehend it. AND BEHOLD -. (the first shadow of the physical man) (b). or apart from. Because if -"Life. it may easily be shown that this doctrine is supported by all the ancient
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.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. FROM THE COMBINED ATTRIBUTES OF THESE.that which remains from each personality. THE THINKER. IT PASSES INTO THE SECOND (Kingdom). IS FORMED. or rather its aroma -. MANU (man). 1. In whatever way interpreted. -.

1." says the Zohar. a male Principle) by his right shoulder. from the Zoroastrian to the Jewish. . would render the idea more clearly. Queen. The entire system of the Kabalistic numerals is based on the divine septenary hanging from the Triad (thus forming the Decade) and its permutations 7. bk 1. from the Vedic to the Egyptian. a female Principle) by the left shoulder. From the basin.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. the "four-lettered" Mystery. He (Adam Kadmon) fecundates the primitive Heva" (Eve or our Earth). 4.2003 03:31:25]
." Thus our Earth. 1.05. which." the Elohim are made to say. "When I framed Adam Kadmon. . finally." The Sephiroth of this upper triad are: -. The Deity is like the Sea from which outflows a stream called WISDOM. "The first triad of the body of Adam Kadmon (the three upper planes of the seven*) cannot be seen before the soul stands in the presence of the Ancient of Days. like seven channels. they formed the worlds six by six. and 3. the latter if reckoned by the planes. "The Deity (the ever Invisible Presence).htm (2 von 27) [06. issue the Seven Sephiroth. after the Elohim (the "Sons of Light and Life. Chochmah (Wisdom." or as said in the Book of Numbers "by Yezod. Binah (Intelligence. P. "The seven manifested and the three concealed limbs are the Body of the Deity. Blavatsky. the waters of which fall into a lake named Intelligence. and 3. the Kabalistic works offer abundant proof of this statement. called "the inferior Mother. Page]] 239 CHALDEAN METAPHYSICS. For ten equal seven: the Decade contains four Unities and three Binaries. therefore we read in the Sephra Dzenioutha (the "Book of the Concealed Mystery"): -"In the beginning of Time.
lesser Face) or Tetragrammaton."
[[Vol. "the Spirit of the Eternal shot out of his Body like a sheet of lightning that radiated at once on the billows of the Seven millions of skies. "manifests itself through the ten Sephiroth which are its radiating witnesses." The ten Sephiroth correspond to the limbs of MAN. is
http://www. Kether (the Crown) represented by the brow of Macroprosopos. 2. the seventh being Malkuth. "foundation. Page]] 240 THE SECRET DOCTRINE." But neither the Head nor the shoulders of Adam-Kadmon can be seen.
religions. . and the Kingdom of the Foundation." or the "Builders") had shaped out of the eternal Essence the Heavens and the Earth. and my ten splendours were his limbs. In the case of the lastmentioned. is both the Seventh and the Fourth world.theosociety. which is our Earth (see Mantuan Codex) on its plane. These are our seven "Principles. Rendered in mystic language this is the explanation why Malkuth.The Secret Doctrine by H. "A Living Soul" is a synonym of man in the Bible. Malkuth."1. 5. and the lowest on all the other planes of conscious existence. It is generated by the sixth globe or Sephiroth called Yezod. The Chaldean Book of Numbers contains a detailed explanation of all this. ." Matrona. vol." Then come the seven limbs (or Sephiroth) on the planes of manifestation. sec 7a
[[Vol. 1. the totality of these four planes being represented by Microprosopus (the
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* The formation of the "living Soul" or man. the former when counting from the first globe above. all merge into the ONE itself: an endless and boundless Circle.

") Paul. . knew it well when referring to the eternal rest and felicity in heaven. sec 7a
shown as the Bride of Tetragrammaton or Microprosopus (the 2nd Logos) the Heavenly Man." If the Christians will follow Jewish customs they ought to adopt the spirit and not the dead letter thereof: i. male and female. Sabbath is there taken for the whole week. and then the human race appeared.. . for they will ever be (one) with the Lord and will enjoy an eternal Sabbath. Isanagi and Isanami begat Tenshoko doijin.theosociety. above which run upward on both its sides the six globes. "Microprosopus. the Mother. all things become one body. and two more have still to appear in this Round. destroyed after each of the three rounds which it has gone through). P. an Initiate. Captain C.05." smaller because manifested and finite. "is formed of six Sephiroth." "Becomes one body" means that all is reabsorbed once more into the one element. 1.e. That the word "Sabbath" had a mystic significance is shown in the contempt shown by Jesus for the Sabbath day. being confined to unimportant divergences of form and expression.
http://www. five of which have already appeared.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.." (Hebrew iv.. is separated and brought face to face with the King. "I fast twice in the Sabbath. is very small indeed.)
[[Vol. as Sabbath. the lowest of the chain." the two preceding races which give birth to animal and to rational man.
The difference between the two systems. i. the spirits of men becoming Nirvanees and the elements of everything else becoming again what they were before -. and by what is said in Luke xviii. 1. 1. "and their happiness will be eternal." he says. calls the earth the lower. bk 1. three on each side.htm (3 von 27) [06.after the regeneration." These "gods" are simply our five races. 12. .(Malkuth our earth. The Shinto allegorical accounts of Cosmogony and the origin of man in Japan hint at the same belief." (Book of Numbers.) This relates to the Seven Races. Isanagi and Isanami being the two kinds of the "ancestors. the Kabala of the Christian mystics --the Kabala and the archaic esoteric Vidya. the first of the five gods of the Earth. to work one week of seven days and rest seven days. taking the Kabala as contained in the Chaldean Book of Numbers." says the same work." For the "seventh day" has again an occult significance undreamt of by our theologians. "Seven kings come and die in the thrice-destroyed world" -.protyle or undifferentiated substance. The first man was called Kuni-to ko tatchi-nomikoto. or the Seventh. "is as follows: Out of chaos (Konton) the earth (in) was the sediment precipitated. on the other hand. (See Greek text where the week is called Sabbath. . viii. vol. Thus Eastern occultism refers to our earth as the fourth world. It is not the seventh day after six days but a period the duration of which equals that of the seven "days" or any period made up of seven parts. and five other names were given to him." The "smaller face. of "Ha Idra Zuta Kadisha. "The Shinto idea of creation." says verse 746. . 3. When free from all impurity she will become united with the Spiritual Logos. Thus a pralaya is equal in duration to the manwantara. adding that upon the six depend all things which are in it. in the 7th Race of the 7th Round -. not as misrepresented by its now disfigured copy. "Sabbath" means rest or Nirvana. in the excellence of the Sabbath. Page]] 241 THE TRUE AND THE FALSE KABALA. The Zohar. or a night of Brahma is equal to this "day. "When Matronitha. and the Heavens (yo) the ethereal essences which ascended: Maa (jin) appeared between the two.e. Pfoundes studied for nearly nine years in the monasteries of Japan the religion underlying the various sects of the land.The Secret Doctrine by H. on the day of "SABBATH. "And their reign (of the seven kings) will be broken up.2003 03:31:25]
. Blavatsky. 2. in chapter xxii.

Thus it stands with both the Kabalistic and the Occult names attached: --
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It will be shown (Vol. II. II.
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. was pre-eminent in all the secret systems. the informing element." however cleverly the correct thought is veiled.

too." pp. Atma-Buddhi are irrational on this plane and cannot act. and this light is triple. 388. Neschamah -. in order to show the points of agreement. Blavatsky. Levi. makes a distinction between Kabalistic and Occult Pneumatics. 4. Page]] 243 OCCULT AND KABALISTIC DOCTRINES.** 5.a convincing proof that its literature has become a sad jumble. the "breath of [[first column continued on next page]] [[second column]] Say the Theosophists: -ESOTERIC PNEUMATICS. Ruach -." 3. The image is double. 389.htm (5 von 27) [06. because it reflects the good as the bad.05. The Soul (or EGO) is a clothed light. 1." But there are many such strange and curious transformations to be found in the Kabalistic works -. body. not Manas. It is Buddhi which is the plastic mediator." or mind. "the reasoning Soul. bk 1. 1. 6.
[[Vol. As given by Eliphas Levi. the Kabalist: -KABALISTIC PNEUMATICS. Nephesch -. Nephesh is immortal because it renews its life by the destruction of forms. ------OCCULT PNEUMATICS. Imago.the Soul or Spirit. 7.
We will now give in tabular form what the very cautious Eliphas Levi says in explanation of his diagram.plastic mediator. sec 7a
instead of Manas."pure Spirit.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.The Secret Doctrine by H. (See "Histoire de la Magic. 1.
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. We do not accept the classification except in this one particular. and what the Esoteric Doctrine teaches -. "the intelligent medium between the upper Triad and the lower Quaternary. 1. [But Nephesh.) [[first column]] Says Eliphas Levi.theosociety. The garment of the Soul is the rind (body) of the image (astral Soul). vol.

Ditto. (Spirit). because he repeats the first two. The fatal image (the astral) endows Nephesch with its aptitudes. whether purposely or otherwise. Why not say that the astral reflects the good as well as the bad man. material life. if also the 2nd prana. in man. which has no spirituality in it. 7. Mediator between Spirit and its Man. 4. confused the numbers: with us his No. or else disappears with the Quaternary.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. Neschamah is progressive without oblivion and destruction.
[[Vol.05.theosociety. But Manas is not Nephesch. he thus makes in reality only six principles. Ditto. 1. Ruach progresses by the evolution of ideas (! ?). Blavatsky. man. Spiritual Soul. for Nephesch is the "breath of life" in man. Too uselessly apocalyptic. 7. 1. Correct. vol. 5. of physical. As given by the Occultists. P. The soul has three dwellings. ------OCCULT PNEUMATICS. and [[second column continued on next page]]
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* Eliphas Levi has. but the 4th principle. because after every new incarnation it adds to Atma-Buddhi something of itself. and by making of Nephesch both the plastic mediator and Life. 2. These dwellings are: the plane of the mortals: the Superior Eden. nor is the latter the astral. for it is Atma-Buddhi-Manas. 6. 6. Ditto. but Ruach is able to substitute for this (vitiated) Nephesch the image
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[[first column continued from last page]] life.] 2. and the Inferior Eden.* 3. the earthly image. sec 7a
1. The image (man) is a sphinx that offers the riddle of birth. 1. the Mind. who is ever tending to the upper triangle. bk 1. 2 is No.The Secret Doctrine by H. 4. as in beast or insect. ** Esotericism teaches the same." is a misnomer and a useless puzzle to the student.htm (6 von 27) [06. 5.2003 03:31:25]
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. ------[[second column continued from last page]] or Manas tries to escape the fatal attraction and turns its aspirations to Atma -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. ------It is very evident that the French Kabalist either did not know sufficiently the real tenet. treating upon the same subject. the Limbo) for the disembodied man.theosociety.when the latter is willing. 7. and personality endures only when the
http://www. Page]] 245 OCCULTISTS AND KABALISTS DIFFER.The Secret Doctrine by H. or his Shell. Thus he says again. shares its immortality. The astral through Kama (desire) is ever drawing Manas down into the sphere of material passions and desires. 2. Devachan for the higher Triad. the terrestrial sphere. bk 1. forgets. Occultists. 3. or the animal Soul. 2. Nephesch the mould of Ruach. It does not belong to this plane: it is but the ray of light eternal which shines upon and through the darkness of matter -. The Soul (collectively. 5.05.then Buddhi (Ruach) conquers. 4. and we. Blavatsky.htm (7 von 27) [06. But if the better man [[second column continued on next page]]
[[Vol. and carries Manas with it to the realm of eternal Spirit. and it exists eternally on the highest of the three. Ruach the mould of the garments of Neschamah. 6. Light (the Soul) personifies in clothing itself (with a body). Atma neither progresses. 1. or distorted it to suit himself and his object. answer the late Kabalist and his admirers: -[[first column]] 1. P. as the upper Triad) lives on three planes. assimilating itself to the Monad. The body is the mould of Nephesch. vol.Spirit -. sec 7a
[[first column continued on next page]] [[second column continued from last page]] thus. besides its fourth. Correct. 1. Buddhi becomes conscious by the accretions it gets from Manas after every new incarnation and the death of man. nor remembers. These dwellings are: Earth for the physical man.

Genesis begins its anthropology at the wrong end (evidently for a blind) and lands nowhere. P. of the
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* The introductory chapters of Genesis were never meant to represent even a remote allegory of the creation of our Earth." vol. it creeps out of it. shot down by the law of Evolution into the lowest form of matter -. a plant. or anything. To return to Stanza VII. first of all. the "Fiat Lux" of the Bible. so to speak. But this transformation did not take place on our Earth. But see also "The Primeval Manus of Humanity" in Book II.htm (8 von 27) [06. or shape. Passing thence. 2. the celestial Logos. when successive attempts were being made by the law of evolution at the formation of
http://www. bk 1. it has now reached the point in which it has become the germ. a man.the mineral. 14 Manus reign. (b) The well-known Kabalistic aphorism runs: -. Manas tries to follow the light of Buddhi. after which comes Pralaya when all the Souls rest in Nirvana. the beast.
Such are the distorted copies of the esoteric doctrine in the Kabala. but in the Spacial Depths of the first differentiation of the eternal Root-matter. Page]] 246 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. p. one would have found in it. The angels aspire to become men. sec 7a
garment is perfect. through all the forms of vegetable matter. say. and the spirit a god. 3. a beast. into what is termed animal matter." The "spark" animates all the kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informs divine man. nor on any material plane. 4. i. as said in "Isis Unveiled. [[second column]] 1." which evolves as a Compound Unit of Logoi.theosociety.The Secret Doctrine by H.. as we have already seen. of Manas. Buddhi is the mould of the "garments" of Atma. Blavatsky. a perfect man. 302.2003 03:31:25]
. when the latter is perfect enough to assimilate Buddhi.05.000 years the soul rejuvenates and rests in the jubilean sleep of oblivion. On our nascent globe things proceed differently. as the separate globules of quicksilver on a plate blend into one mass -. animal man. as a lichen. After a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the Fourth Round). 1. "a great age" or a day of Brahrna. a man a spirit.* Had it begun as it ought. the "Heavenly Man. because Atma is no body. Within a period. Correct. The Monad or Jiva.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. but often fails. They embrace a metaphysical conception of some indefinite period in the eternity. (Souls = Egos). is. between whom and his predecessor."A stone becomes a plant. vol. there is all the difference in the world.the Logoi appear in their totality as the first "male and female" or Adam Kadmon. a man-god is above all the angels. good or bad. and because Buddhi is its vehicle only figuratively.
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neither of which is possessed by the homogeneous monad. when once they are on the plane of differentiation. How is he to obtain all this? The Occult doctrine teaches that while the monad is cycling on downward into matter. All this. after having reached a certain point. left alone. Thus. P. Purusha (spirit) is spoken of as something impotent unless he mounts on the shoulders of Prakriti (matter). 1. these very Elohim -..05. so do Spirit and Matter stand to each other -. In the Sankhya philosophy. from a potential androgyne. and (b) an intelligent consciousness to guide its evolution and progress. of the Elohim. bk 1. p. gradually evolving into
http://www. 1. while the negative and the positive are mutually attracted. for that material to shape itself into. Spirit and Matter. for the former is irrational without the latter. two like poles will always repel each other." to receive which. that he will be endowed with this conscious. 292. they will meet the incarnating senseless monad. vol. "Idra Suta. Spirit and Matter.
[[Vol. In polarity. and senseless. or prototype.)
[[Vol. The idea is plainly stated in the Zohar: "There were old worlds. or opposite sexes) of King and Queen (Sephira and Kadmon). But in the secret philosophy they are viewed as graduated. ("Isis Unveiled. the monad requires (a) a spiritual model.his Logos -about creation.The Secret Doctrine by H. It is only when. 421. that of a pure spiritual substance. The Adam of dust requires the Soul of Life to be breathed into him: the two middle principles. the root-principle of the universe. and blending the two potencies. man has become separated into male and female. a breath of the ABSOLUTE. begin each of them their evolutionary progress in contrary directions -. the union will produce that terrestrial symbol of the "Heavenly Man" in space -. lets the sparks fly in all directions. on the physical plane. which are the sentient life of the irrational animal and the Human Soul. descending also relatively into matter on their own plane of consciousness. (Manas) "the principle." See Zohar. which perished as soon as they came into existence. individual Soul. when. b. and were called Sparks. is formless. or the intelligence. ii. is unconscious on our plane.rudimentary man of the first 2 1/2 Races being only the first. 1. up to the Third Round. rational. encased in the lowest matter. and the latter ascending to its original condition. having no relations with the conditioned and relative finiteness. Page]] 247 SPIRIT ALONE IS HELPLESS ON EARTH. besides the material which will be needed for its future human form. and the Master was not yet at his work. which. which could not continue because the Sacred Aged (Sephira) had not as yet assumed its form (of androgyne. when hammering the iron.
Therefore. Though one and the same thing in their origin. Page]] 248 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.are evolving pari passu with it on a higher and more spiritual plane.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.the two poles of the same homogeneous substance. yet ever separated. The sparks are the primordial worlds. For the Monad or Jiva per se cannot be even called spirit: it is a ray. or by senseless though living matter. as consciousness.theosociety. sec 7a
universes. is -senseless. he has to eat of the fruit of Knowledge from the Tree of Good and Evil. that will become the physical man. Blavatsky. when the hour strikes for Purusha to mount on Prakriti's shoulders for the formation of the Perfect Man -.htm (9 von 27) [06.PERFECT MAN. and the Absolute Homogeneity. or the Absoluteness rather.Spirit falling gradually into matter.or Pitris..
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in which Karabtanos or Fetahil (blind concupiscent matter) begets on his Mother. we would ask.this doctrine has left its impress on every Archaic Scripture. still more ethereal and shadowy similitudes of themselves. so strange that unless thoroughly explained and as rightly comprehended. But Man is still incomplete. which is the direct emanation of the "One Life" or the Absolute Deity.." seven figures. Sin** and the MOON.* Fire alone is ONE. from whom descended the seven primitive Manus or Prajapati. down to the Codex Nazareus. Page]] 249 MATTER. The Pitris shoot out from their ethereal bodies. as the Pitris had stepped in before them for the formation of the physical or animal-man. 297-303." Here Manu stands for the spiritual. The expression employed by Science.The Secret Doctrine by H. "inorganic substance. each of which stands as the progenitor of one of the primaeval seven races -. vol. comes the tendency "to run into organic form"? Is it in any way explicable except according to the teachings of Occult Science? "The worlds." says a Commentary.
[[Vol." or "astral forms.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. 1. and blind matter with a model around and upon which to build henceforth.the Celestial "Ancestors" (Entities from preceding worlds." says Tyndall. From Swayambhuva Manu (in Manu. P. because it is outside the range of the
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* Read in Isis. "Who forms Manu (the Man) and who forms his body? The LIFE and the LIVES. the numberless and countless crores of lives. or what we should now call "doubles. "seem instinct with a desire for life. on the plane of the One
http://www.for the two creations: the animal and the divine man -. pp. each of whom gave birth to a primitive race of men. the Doctrine teaches a strange lesson.05. the real and non-dying EGO in us.differ greatly. the doctrine of the Codex Nazaraeus -. ** The word "Sin" is curious. "Spiritus. heavenly man." Whence. Thus the two processes -. 1. to the profane.2003 03:31:25]
. it is only the exact Science of the future that is destined to vindicate the theory fully. Book I. "The very Atoms. Blavatsky. these Elements are themselves collectively a divine Life.htm (10 von 27) [06." means simply that the latent life slumbering in the molecules of so-called "inert matter" is incognizable.* This furnishes the Monad with its first dwelling. on the plane of manifestations.). As to our outward physical bodies.every tenet of our teaching is found there under a different form and allegory. then.
laws known to those who reject Occultism. LIFE AND SUBSTANCE. ii. but has a particular Occult relation to the Moon. the house of the tabernacle of the Soul. besides being its Chaldean equivalent. though beyond our comprehension and perception. distributively. and every atom of even mineral dust is a LIFE." in their own likeness. ALL IS LIFE. sec 7a
the most perfect of mammals -. and incarnate in the latter. called in India the Sishta) step in on this our plane. It has been stated before now that Occultism does not accept anything inorganic in the Kosmos. bk 1.theosociety. vol. "are built up of the known Elements. To the conception of an Arhat.

and some microbes and bacteria. . develop and multiply in air. and Claude Bernard thought that Pasteur's idea of the formation of ferments found its application and corroboration in the fact that Urea increases in the blood during strangulation: LIFE therefore is everywhere in the Universe. Bhumi (the Earth) appears with six sisters. . killed them. Pasteur shows that in the substance of our tissues and organs. Why. its particles are fiery lives which live and have their being at the expense of every other life that they consume. then. Fire. . and does not.The Secret Doctrine by H. 1. Pasteur found that many of the lower lives. then liquid mist. That there exist in Nature Beings or Lives that can live and thrive without air. Also see infra. . These fought." . break off its relations with life itself. Then came the first manifested MATERIAL. furnishing to the atmosphere materials which enter later on into the constitution of other organisms. heat generates moist vapour. "Therefore the vegetable cell manifests in this case its life as an anaerobic being. among which we must class processes of fermentation".org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. but when deprived of it. and. which produced rotation. . "that the evolution of the germ is accomplished by means of complicated phenomena. bk 1.* These produce by their continuous motion the inferior fire.2003 03:31:25]
. and contributes vastly to the destruction of animal life and vegetable tissues. Certain germ-cells. "From the ONE LIFE formless and Uncreate. the cell. the hot flames. on the contrary. living on the tissues of our matter when the latter has ceased to form a part of an integral and living whole (then called very unscientifically by science "dead matter").05. the wanderers in heaven (comets). and Anaerobes." (Irresolvable nebulae.
[[Vol. and thereby ruining the latter. Blavatsky. First was manifested from the Deep (Chaos) cold luminous fire (gaseous light?) which formed the curds in Space. perhaps?). 1. act as ferments and stimulate fermentation. being. which. when lacking free oxygen.
Reality: on that of manifested. . they will adapt themselves to life without air and become ferments. They derived the oxygen necessary for their multiplication from the various substances that surround them. it is also in the atom. watery. could exist without air. then dry mist. front conscious and divine primordial man down to the unconscious agents that construct matter. such as Vibriones. heat. the so-called organic substance. The cells in fruit." goes on Pasteur. . is nothing else than a process of fermentation.htm (11 von 27) [06." . Page]] 250 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. stimulates fermentation in the same way as the fruit-cell. and an aqueous mist. . should an organic cell form in this case an exception"? asks Professor Bogolubof. and life. or rather annihilates finally. and a great heat was developed by the encountering and collision. The one kind binds oxygen. sec 7a
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* Is Pasteur unconsciously taking the first step toward Occult Science in declaring that. "Every visible thing in this Universe was built by such LIVES. not finding sufficient oxygen for itself. . that forms solid water (?). that puts out the luminous brightness of the pilgrims (comets?) and forms solid watery wheels (MATTER globes). which is supported by the influence of that gas? "I would add. was demonstrated by the same men of science. ultimate decay being impossible without their participation. He calls them AErobes. even on our globe. . hence illusive. absorbing oxygen from substances coming in contact with them. at the close of this Section. on that account. P. . Occultism teaches us. vol." . he would say that the Organic cells are endowed with a vital potency that does not cease its activity with the cessation of a current of Oxygen towards them.theosociety. according to Claude Bernard and Pasteur. Therefore they are named the "DEVOURERS. if he dared express his full idea upon this subject. proceeds the Universe of lives. the other destroys. which yields the third
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the "Fourth dimension of MATTER in Space.05. developed but one Element. We shall treat of this hereafter. adapted to this condition of Nature.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. Bhumi. sec 7a
World-Element -."** But it is an unhappy phrase even thus expanded.which rejects the primitive nomenclature." This means that every new Round develops one of the Compound Elements. "One-dimensional Space. The familiar phrase can only be an abbreviation of the fuller form -. the lower one.to use again a familiar phrase in a strictly figurative sense (the only way in which it can be used correctly) -. vol.let us call it for the moment PERMEABILITY -.WATER. corresponding to the existing senses of man.among Spiritualists and Theosophists. preferring to subdivide them into constituents. of course. and our Earth (the fourth) is called Bhumi.this will correspond to the next sense of man -. was a sixth characteristic
http://www. our Earth. P.The Secret Doctrine by H. what they were really in want of. those with which we are already familiar are really more numerous than the three dimensions. "the fourth dimension of Space. The faculties. when some bold thinkers have been thirsting for a fourth dimension to explain the passage of matter through matter. and the production of knots upon an endless cord." thus. it is worth while to point out the real significance of the sound but incomplete intuition that has prompted -." but in passing.the use of the modern expression.called by some. and several great men of Science.theosociety. by the other three we ascend into Spirit. three "Earths" on the descending arc. Page]] 251 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF SPACE.
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* It is a Vedic teaching that "there are three Earths corresponding to three Heavens. and smell. because while it is perfectly true that the progress of evolution may be destined to introduce us to new characteristics of matter. on the ascending or spiritual arc: by the first three we descend into matter. we are taught."a two-dimensional species." The processes of natural development which we are now considering will at once elucidate and discredit the fashion of speculating on the attributes of the two. and a nature and humanity in what may be called one aspect of Nature -. as now known to Science. The three last will follow. three. These four are the four lives of the first four periods (Rounds) of Manvantara. taste. though it may be so de facto. so to say.htm (12 von 27) [06. Matter has extension. and four or more "dimensional Space.let us call it "NORMAL CLAIRVOYANCE. only far more ethereal. for the matter of that* -. progress. forming the turning point. and increase to the Manvantaric end. colour. motion (molecular motion). and from the breath of all (atmospheric) AIR is born. if we can give the name Humanity to beings living under conditions unknown to men. and containing potentially as much of Spirit as it does of Matter.Fire and Earth -. then those Elements are to be regarded in the same light: they have to evolve. and by the time that it fully develops the next characteristic -. -. must clearly bear a direct relation always to the senses of man." To begin with. 1." This is the explanation given by our exoteric Western Orientalists.
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as already indicated. it has been stated. cool and radiant as its ethereal men and animals during the first Round. the Earth. the expression is far more incorrect than even the familiar one of the "Sun rising or setting. The three dimensions belong really but to one attribute or characteristic of matter -extension. Air. Meanwhile.* Earth. the commencement of our geological Earth. The centres of consciousness (destined to develop into humanity as we know it) of the third Round arrived at a perception of the third Element Water. P. to one stage of evolution. to apply to matter. The globe was "fiery. 1. so long will they be able to measure it three ways and no more. all belong to one plane of thought.2003 03:31:25]
. Blavatsky. of St. had no existence before the 4th Round.in one plane of thought. These terms. Page]] 252 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. and
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* Professor Zollner's theory has been more than welcomed by several Scientists --who are Spiritualists ." says the Commentary. So long as there are foot-rules within the resources of Kosmos. hundreds of million years ago. vol. We are only in the fourth Round. That loose and figurative expression may be regarded -. as we have just seen -. But these considerations do not militate in any way against the certainty that in the progress of time -. Part II.)
[[Vol. and from the time the idea of measurement first occupied a place in the human understanding.Professors Butlerof and Wagner.. uttering a contradiction or paradox in the
http://www. may be figuratively referred to as two-dimensional. Milton was right when he spoke of the "Powers of Fire. it has been possible to apply measurement in three directions and no more. Logic. 389.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.as the faculties of humanity are multiplied -. breadth.
popular common sense justly rebels against the idea that under any condition of things there can be more than three of such dimensions as length. has to do. Earth". Water. But here another caveat must be entered. Air. p. sec 7a
of matter. Matter in the second Round. ** "The giving reality to abstractions is the error of Realism. Space and Time are frequently viewed as separated from all the concrete experiences of the mind. and thickness.as equivalent to the second characteristic of matter corresponding to the second perceptive faculty or sense of man. But these two linked scales of evolution are concerned with the processes going on within the limits of a single Round.** Those of the fourth Round have added
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* The order in which these Elements are placed above is the correct one for esoteric purposes and in the Secret Teachings. such as we know it now.so will the characteristics of matter be multiplied also." We now return to the consideration of material evolution through the Rounds. for instance.htm (13 von 27) [06. to one characteristic of matter." (Bain. The succession of primary aspects of Nature with which the succession of Rounds is concerned. instead of being generalizations of these in certain aspects. with the development of the "Elements" (in the Occult sense) -. Petersburg.Fire. 1.theosociety. and the term "dimension" itself.05.The Secret Doctrine by H. bk 1. Water. and our catalogue so far stops short.

1.emblem of infinity. lignite. fixed by the weight of the atmosphere (?!) and the power of central attraction . and which we recommend to the reader's attention. and we have to believe that all the Carbonic Acid which went to compose those plants that formed bituminous coal. The Author says of the great Magic Agent -.htm (14 von 27) [06.The Secret Doctrine by H. and the tempter of Genesis.those of Fishes and Molluscs -on that assumption? Barometric pressure. 1. the Astral Light. this vital and luminous caloric."Time" -." by means of which "a single man who can master it . "It is the winged dragon of Medea. Waite). then we would say that there was no real water -even during the Carboniferous period." Quoting the words of the great Western Kabalist in their translated form (see The Mysteries of Magic. is represented on ancient monuments by the girdle of Isis which twines round two poles and in ancient theogonies by the serpent devouring its own tail.
earth as a state of matter to their stock as well as the three other elements in their present transformation.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. . Now. immortality. . simply
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. the first Matter of the Magnum Opus of the Creators and "Builders. were absorbed by plants. there must have been seas and oceans of liquid carbonic acid? But how then could the carboniferous period be preceded by the Devonian and Silurian ages -. while a large proportion of that gas was mixed in the water. ** If we had to frame our conclusions according to the data furnished to us by the [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. emblem of prudence and of Saturn" -. In short. watery during the Third!" Thus are the elements reversed. stand that? There is a curious work by Blanchard. . wherein he shows some strange contradictions and confusions in the theories of his colleagues. . vol.05.theosociety. which existed formerly spread in the atmosphere as Carbonic Acid. For all we know. We are told that gigantic masses of carbon. and so on. AIR. and
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opinion of our present Science." and in the next "Baphomet. we may explain them perhaps the better by the occasional addition of a word or two to show the difference between Western and Eastern explanations of the same subject. etc. How could organisms. . in the three preceding Rounds. it is the devil of exoteric dogmatism. and Kronos -. none of the so-called elements were. that all this was at that period in the atmosphere in gaseous form. Page]] 253 THE GREAT ARCHAEUS. the double serpent of the caduceus. E. FIRE may have been pure AKASA. for it is the "great Arcanum of transcendent Magic. this electromagnetic ether. on the Origin of Life." the "Androgyne Goat of Mendes"*. P. bk 1. as they are now..

" or the (to us) invisible planes of being. II. it is not "Heaven and Earth. "the breath of the Supporters of the Heavenly Dome. etc.
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[[Vol. Separate the first from the second chapter. air (5). and the latter as that of the far younger Jehovists.' they will be absorbed by the same power which first produced them and will return to the central and eternal fire.an absurdity unless the esoteric explanation is accepted. the upper and the lower Heavens. 1. God divided the light from the Darkness (v. bk 1. if one reads between the lines. according to Moses. Water. Blavatsky.05." (6). What it really is will be given in Part II. light is produced before the Sun. . just as in the first.. and then made the firmament. WATER. Discussing and explaining the nature of the invisible Elements and the "primordial fire" mentioned above. 1. still one finds. and only for one man -. Page]] 254 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 4). "the waters which were under the firmament (our manifested visible Universe) from the waters above the firmament. i. which souls must conquer in order to detach themselves from the chains of Earth." (v. "a firmament in the midst of the waters.for there was no earth then such as it is now. sec 7a
is really the blind force (it is not blind. and Levi knew it)." All the above is as practical as it is correct. which we will explain in the text further on. save one error. Eliphas Levi commits a great blunder in always identifying the Astral Light with what we call Akasa. For others.or the manifested Universe -.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12." It is the "grand Agent Magique" with him. to make a living soul with. Fire (light).only so far as Black Magic is concerned. .The Secret Doctrine by H. for the Elohim ('gods') had not caused it to rain upon the earth. the same order in which things created appear -. P. 'for if they should not. read the former as a scripture of the Elohists. "So far shalt thou go. yet must remain almost useless. undeniably it is so. and the herb of the field was in existence before it grew as it does now in the fourth Round.e. it is discovered.
Nitrogen. Eliphas Levi calls it invariably the "Astral Light. .theosociety. 1. that primordial fluid which was required. In the second chapter (the Jehovistic)." as the Mohammedan mystics call it." This great archaeus is now discovered by. Air. however. 5) -. And this may account for the flagrant discrepancies and unscientific statements found in Genesis.htm (15 von 27) [06. W. Page]] 255 BUT WHY SLANDER THE INDIAN HIEROPHANTS?
http://www. vol. and let it divide the waters from the waters. of Vol.namely. but -. Keeley. "God made the Earth and the Heavens and every plant of the field before it was in the Earth and every herb of the field before it grew. For the sentence: "In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth" is a mistranslation.

. have occasionally confused Akasa with Prakriti. least of all then.the Astral Light being only above the lowest plane of Prakriti. The Commentator describes the Deity as: "One Pradhanika Brahma Spirit: THAT. of which the Sun is the third form . we imagine. since nothing material or physical. the root of all. have been misunderstood. with Ether. what is Pradhana. 1. But when the great authority of the Western Kabalists adds that nevertheless.according to metaphysics and philosophy -. yet is held as infinite and immortal. . again.we answer that he slanders the said Hierophants.htm (16 von 27) [06." . True. P.05. then. is to enunciate truth only in the second proposition. have ignorantly imagined it to be "material. nor earth. can it be the Astral Light. and even this would be held incorrect by orthodox Occultists. as they have said nothing of the kind. moreover. and is doomed to disappear with the rest. nor darkness. in another aspect? For Pradhana. it is not the astral light.it would follow that Akasa is neither infinite nor immortal." Prakriti is ever called Maya. Now. and even with the visible Sky! It is true also that those who have invariably translated the term Akasa by "Ether" (Wilson. the former term (Pradhana) being certainly synonymous with Mulaprakriti and Akasa. i. The "Astral Light" is simply the older "sidereal Light" of Paracelsus. The latter is not the container of all things but only the reflector. unapprehensible by intellect.theosociety. for it is shown in the following sentences in Vishnu Purana: "In the beginning there was neither day nor night. and the second in the outer (our) Universe).
(primeval matter) and sound. Blavatsky. for instance). and must be the same as
http://www. and to say that "everything which exists has been evolved from it.for the "immortal Spirit. for the day-star (the sun) is only the reflection and material shadow of the Central Sun of truth. ch. the gods included.The Secret Doctrine by H. illusion. for it is shown that Akasa is not even the Ether." and interprets the compound term as a substantive. at best. .e. . and it preserves and reproduces all forms. at the hour of the Pralaya. the material Kosmos -.it is the first in the inner. This is easy to demonstrate. though said further on to merge into the Deity as everything else does. and the latter (sound) with the Verbum. as a property. nor sky. . Page]] 256 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. and therefore conditioned and temporary can be immortal -. the noumenon of which is Akasa. The first is erroneous. of this all. finding it called "the material cause of sound" possessing. bk 1. this one single property (Vishnu Purana). the Word or the Logos. not an evolution. 1. if it is not Mulaprakriti.). sec 7a
on the lowest planes of what we call Ether. Eliphas Levi writes: -"The great Magic agent is the fourth emanation of the life principle (we say -. was." in the physical sense. "it is not the immortal Spirit as the Indian Hierophants have imagined" -.* Hence Pradhana even in the Puranas is an aspect of Parabrahmam. for if all that exists was evolved through (or via) it. which illuminates the intellectual (invisible) world of Spirit and which itself is but a gleam borrowed from the ABSOLUTE. But all this is erroneous. that if the characteristics are accepted literally. nor light. Save only ONE.2003 03:31:25]
. while even the Puranic exoteric writings flatly contradict the assertion. No Hindu has ever mistaken Prakriti -.." as he writes. Those unable to penetrate beyond the dead letter of the Puranas. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.. ." So far he is right enough. (Book I. . since both the words Pradhana
[[Vol. in order to leave the ONE absolute during the Pralaya. not as a derivative word used attributively. vol. or that which is Brahma and Pums (Spirit) and Pradhana (primordial matter). ii. . like something conjoined with Pradhana.

It is almost abstract Nature. whether simple or compound." or planes. in Sankhya. the negative and the positive poles of dual nature (abstract and concrete). that the Purana is a dualistic system.prior. The egg of Brahma (Sarva-mandala) is dissolved with its seven zones (dwipa). 1. "the cause of all things. Everything in the Universe progresses steadily in the Great Cycle. sec. however much the latter differs from the former.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. Nature is never stationary during manvantara. and Vayu Purana. the ever-invisible agent.** not simply being.so at the time of pralaya (pratyahara) these seven successively reenter into each other. and even in the Manavadharma-Sastra." says a Vedantin scholar (see "Five Years of Theosophy." p. vegetable." III. and Mahat -Universal intelligence "whose characteristic property is Buddhi" -. iv. in this respect. or fifth. Blavatsky. 12 et seq. For MAHAT is the first product of Pradhana. He is. who becomes "Father" on the lower manifested plane. 67-74). seven regions. ch.)* These are the reasons why the Occultists refuse to give the name of Astral Light to Akasa. if it can be called even that -[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
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.. as they are now for the life of present humanity. See "Sankhya-karika. It will only be in the next. sec 7a
the Vedantic Mulaprakriti.the ever immaculate "Mother" of the fatherless Son.
[[Vol. not evolutionary. the seven Prakritis or "productive productions" are Mahat.The Secret Doctrine by H. Nor is it Astral Light. as it is ever becoming. and as such cannot be Ether.is no other than the Logos.. and mineral. Page]] 257 AKASA IS NOT ETHER. bk 1. 1. ** In the Sankhya philosophy. "In my Father's house are many mansions. then. and that. section viii. "In our Mother's house there are seven mansions. the lowest of which is above and around us -. lxx. 169). moreover. etc. is Pradhana in another form.the gross body of Akasa. for the Purana adds: "In this manner -.. far more will be found. P. and human life are always adapting their organisms to the then reigning Elements.the Astral Light. from an esoteric standpoint.as were the seven forms (principles) of Prakriti reckoned from Mahat to Earth -. It is. for he is called "Eswara" Brahma." He is
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* The student has to note. etc. but especially the former Purana -.htm (17 von 27) [06. The elements. as said. or Akasa. "Prakriti in its primary state is Akasa." may be contrasted with the occult saying. the noumenon of the seven-fold differentiated Prakriti** -.
the "first-born" of whom the Puranas tell us that "Mahat and matter are the inner and outer boundaries of the Universe. or to call it Ether. could not have remained the same since the commencement of the evolution of our chain. and therefore those Elements were then fitted for them. and the Commentary thereon." or.. in short.theosociety. (See Linga Purana." (Vishnu Purana. while incessantly going up and down in the smaller cycles. and the five tanmatras. courted even by physical Science. Akasa. Ahamkara. in our language. Book vi.

par. a particle or a molecule. and also an "agent" for so many things. But with the next element added to our resources in the next Round.The Secret Doctrine by H. even in its most gaseous condition.05. be susceptible of a complete expansion. etc." (Book of Dzyan. The latter. that the densest forms of this will seem to man's perceptions as obstructive to him as a thick fog. and in vol. 18). in the Christian sense of the term. . and no more.. permeability will become so manifest a characteristic of matter. they transform animal matter and generate substances that vary in their constitutions.. ** According to the great metaphysician Hegel also.like must produce like. latent. when. Spirit and Matter are the two States of the ONE. which is neither Spirit nor matter -. and Matter the first differentiation of Spirit. As the above-quoted thinker said: "God (the Universal Spirit) objectivises himself as Nature. as in the present stage of the world. the growth and development of which Akasa subserves. . 1. the two accounts differ totally. That. the aerobes do. becomes active life. and Ahamkara" (which last word does not exist in the Sanskrit texts). vol. who know their Puranas by heart. P.. which are the Cause of Kosmos. but very useful to remind our Orientalists and those Westerns who regard Wilson's translations as authoritative. And THAT we call the ONE LIFE or the Intra-Cosmic Breath. by becoming a familiar fact of Nature to all men. it is drawn into the vortex of MOTION (the alchemical solvent of Life).Wilson comments: "by Water. v. for it shows that there never was a time when the Earth was without life upon it. bk 1. as air is familiar to us now. Without entering at length upon the description given of the higher LIVES. which is neither Spirit nor Matter. may be expected to develop at the proper period in this Round. it must be supposed. and again rises out of it. "Whatsoever quits the Laya State. that in his English translation of the Vishnu Purana he is guilty of the most ludicrous contradictions and errors. "in this manner were the seven forms of nature (Prakriti) reckoned from Mahat to Earth" (?). undermining and loosening the chemical structure in an organism."
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. Ether. of the same Vishnu Purana it is written. A purely esoteric conception. "Spirit is the first differentiation of (and in) SPACE. page 40. is absolutely unthinkable.the Causeless CAUSE of Spirit and Matter. is built up for the first Round by the "Devourers" which disintegrate and differentiate the germs of other lives in the Elements.permeability -which should be developed concurrently with the sixth sense. So on this identical subject of the seven Prakritis or the seven zones of Brahma's egg. sec 7a
* No use to say so to the Hindus. the egg is said to be externally invested by seven envelopes -.that is IT -. however latent and unconscious." Once more we will say -. Thus Occultism disposes of the so-called Azoic age of Science. pretty much.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12.theosociety. In Vol. 1. Wherever there is an atom of matter.htm (18 von 27) [06. For him Nature was a perpetual becoming. we are told. . Blavatsky. we must direct our attention at present simply to the earthly beings and the earth itself. Air.
will. there is life in it. both being the absolute life. Fire. And only during that Round will those higher senses. As already indicated. p. Between Mahat or Maha-Buddhi and "Water. 1. a partial familiarity with the characteristic of matter -. III. Page]] 258 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. cease to be as at present hypothetical. Absolute Life cannot produce an inorganic atom
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save a cold brightness. . destroys. . i.htm (19 von 27) [06. so to say.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. nor form nor colour. from it -. . whose motion and harmonious Union produce the manifested Universe of Matter.that we have our dreams.that sympathy and antipathy are born. . esoterically explained. as the Occultist will offer no objection to this).is still a living being. 1. from it -. 1.." (Commentary. God created it on that day when he said: Fiat Lux. having been built by the primitive fire-lives. gorgeously blooming valleys.)
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|| Speaking of it in his Preface to the "History of Magic" Eliphas Levi says: "It is through this Force that all the nervous centres secretly communicate with each other. When the "Devourers" (in whom the men of science are invited to see. have differentiated "the fire-atoms" by a peculiar process of segmentation. formed into a sphere -. .05. and that the phenomena of second sight and extra-natural visions take place. . acting under the impulsion of powerful wills. and it is directed by the Egregores. are born. Blavatsky. it is only towards the end of the First Round that it developed one Element which from its inorganic. bk 1. the essence of which is the Akasic principle named *** "that which is now known as.theosociety. the latter become life-germs.
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whether single or complex. and their very essence. LUX. that the seven discrete quantities (Elements).The Secret Doctrine by H." Eliphas Levi ought to have added that the astral light. when the "Devourers. which aggregate according to the laws of cohesion and affinity. or primordial substance. and very erroneously termed.
even in laya just as a man in a profound cataleptic state -. with some show of reason. as Eliphas Levi. called Light. the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action. i. of making one paradox chase another in the same sentence and in such flowing language. He leads his reader through the most lovely. coagulates."|| probably to avoid giving it its correct name. . gathers in all things. in the first Round.e. if they will. which work on the structure of our globes. as others do. nor qualifications. "It is through and from the radiations of the seven bodies of the seven orders of Dhyanis. atoms of the Fire-Mist.2003 03:31:26]
." But no other Kabalist has ever had the talent of heaping up one contradiction on the other." we say. P.to all appearance a corpse -. Our physical light is the manifestation on our plane and the reflected radiance of the Divine Light emanating from the collective body of those who are called the "LIGHTS" and the "FLAMES. separates. Page]] 259 ATOMS ARE INVISIBLE LIVES.had no solidity. to strand him after all on a desert and barren rocky island. breaks. and there is life
[[Vol. or simple Essence became now in our Round the fire we know throughout the system. the globe..e. The Earth was in her first rupa. Astral Light.

" The Third Round developed the third Principle -. . so much insisted upon. the purity of which would ensure continuous life to him who would use it.began its real existence: it had developed individual sentient life. bk 1.
The Second Round brings into manifestation the second element AIR. that element. and stones.The Secret Doctrine by H. anaerobes. P. aerobes. Not at all. except larger species. which. the real animal centre.hitherto a foetus in the matrix of Space -. crusted. its second principle. who are destined to open the eyes of mankind to the great physical truths.theosociety.(inversely in this to man) . MATTER in its essential form). that it can reject the doctrine. sec 7a
[[Vol.is more and more clearly shown. Blavatsky. "From the second Round. Page]] 261 THE OCCULT CHEMISTRY. just in the same way as the rocky crust of our Earth was..least of all the human body (sthulasarira) -. and even between the reptile and its nest.the astral body of desires of Ahamkara. 1. . and man -. in its Kamarupic state -. whereas our body is but its shell.e. So far. and from within by leucomaines. and what not. the second is life continuous. Thus the idea that the human tabernacle is built by countless lives. no microscope can detect. Earth will reach her true ultimate form -. Science is on its way to discoveries that will go far towards corroborating this theory. that from without we are threatened with the invasion of microbes with every breath we draw. vol. 1. on the lower plane. is broken.her body shell -. though its composition has always been known among the highest Eastern Initiates. has nothing repulsive in it for the true mystic. while the Fourth transformed the gaseous fluids and plastic form of our globe into the hard. The ozone of the modern chemists is poison compared with the real universal solvent which could never be thought of unless it existed in nature.05. grossly material sphere we are living on. are themselves altogether built up of such beings. Eugenius Philalethes was right when he assured his readers on his word of honour that no one had yet seen the Earth (i.WATER.2003 03:31:26]
.that is the grossest of all our "principles. for it is not because the microscope will ever fail to detect the ultimate living atom or life. so far. the irresponsible factor and medium through which the beast in us acts all its life. the rock.htm (20 von 27) [06. Earth -. as well as those of animals. Chemistry and physiology are the two great magicians of the future. It is not molecularly constituted matter -. the identity between the animal and physical man.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. Every intellectual theosophist will understand my real meaning. There have been two occultists only in Europe who have discovered and even partially applied it in practice. The second corresponds to the sixth (principle). But Science never yet went so far as to assert with the occult doctrine that our bodies. Nor can Science oppose the occult teaching. plants. With every day. Our globe is. "Bhumi" has reached her fourth principle. To this it may be objected that the law of analogy." but verily the middle principle. .only toward the end of the manvantara after the Seventh Round. Page]] 260 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. dark Egotism. 1. chemical science may well say
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kinds. between the plant and man. as regards the purely animal and material portion of man. The physical and chemical constituents of all being found to be identical. (c) Science teaches us that the living as well as the dead organism of both man and animal are swarming with bacteria of a hundred various
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the salamander. and annihilates. or the most agreeable aroma which recalls that of the most delicately scented flowers. the most deadly of serpents. and Villiers. And it is suspected that such blossoms owe their agreeable smell to the poisonous ptomaine. diseases -. and the trigonocephalus of Portugal. in addition to pathological phenomena.htm (21 von 27) [06. We are taught that every physiological change. or plant. animal.The Secret Doctrine by H. it is self-generating and self-destroying. or alkaloid. Page]] 262 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.theosociety. as being the most active organ in the animal economy. It is the muscular tissues.the living body of man. a mystery. and as eternally destroys and changes the forms and expels those souls from their temporary abodes. good and bad.or rather the objective phenomena of life. of alchemy. It is proven that venom of the deadliest kind. having discovered the effects.** Such
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*The French savants Arnaud. that follows in its own sporadic way. having the same importance as carbonic acid and urea in the functions of life. represented collectively by countless myriads of lives.nay. that all this is due to those unseen CREATORS and DESTROYERS that are called in such a loose and general way. 1. produced by certain conditions and changes in the tissues of the body which allow and force life to act in that body. occult botany and physics. and plants. every second in time and space. It says: --. and it generates equally life and death. Blavatsky. It creates and kills. beauty and ugliness. one instance may be cited in illustration. microbes. or leucomaine. that are suspected of being the generators or factors of venoms. And though it is not yet fully determined whether poisons can be generated by the animal system of living beings without the participation and
http://www. these alkaloids yield either a most sickening. 1. But the Occult doctrine is far more explicit. the hitherto incomprehensible law of Atavism. disgusting smell. that copies family resemblances as well as those it finds impressed in the aura of the generators of every future human being. Science has to find their PRIMARY CAUSES. but the same infinitesimal invisible lives compose the atoms of the bodies of the mountain and the daisy. is generated by living men. For the present. inasmuch as it builds by aggregation universes and the ephemeral vehicles ready to receive the transmigrating soul.a life also) extracted
[[Vol. the venomous essence of certain mushrooms (fungi) being nearly identical with the venom of the cobra of India. life itself -. vol. and even the agreeable and disagreeable. the cobra. yields a smell as strong and equal to that of the freshest orangeblossoms.Not only the chemical compounds are the same.05. animals. Each particle -whether you call it organic or inorganic -. Gautier. sec 7a
that there is no difference between the matter which composes the ox and that which forms man. bk 1. in short. The same savant. discovered an alkaloid in the fresh meat of an ox and in its brains. Modern science begins to find out that ptomaine (the alkaloid poison generated by decaying matter and corpses -. and of the tree which shelters him from the sun.is a life. but that free from oxygen. whether called ptomaine. Every atom and molecule in the Universe is both life-giving and death-giving to that form. of the elephant. that mystery of mysteries -. have found in the saliva of living men the same venomous alkaloid as in that of the toad. and a venom which he calls Xanthocreatinine similar to the substance extracted from the poisonous saliva of reptiles. P.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. and this it can never do without the help of the old sciences. it brings into being.2003 03:31:26]
. that will receive fuller attention elsewhere. It is that mysterious LIFE.
with the help of volatile ether. which venoms are the ultimate products of inner combustion. the beneficent and maleficent sensations. Gautier.* Thus. of man and the ant.

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[[Vol. and correspond in the individual with the One Life of the Universe. are left to run riot as destructive agents. the only Occultist in Europe. Sin and Moon" in the apocalyptic saying of the Stanza to do in company with the "Life-microbes"? With the latter nothing. P. during the last centuries since the Christian era. their functions. one thing is sure in this: The knowledge of these primary causes and of the ultimate essence of every element. with divine perfect man everything. since "Fish. This is not true. After this period is passed the age of retrogression commences. Page]] 263 PARACELSUS DIED TOO EARLY. life is on the ascending scale. the work of destruction and decrease also commences. However it may be. This is all that can be given. perhaps. of its lives. the work of the "fiery lives" exhausting their strength. The physical body of man undergoes a complete change of structure every seven years. Had not a criminal hand put an end to his life. The "fiery lives" are the seventh and highest subdivision of the plane of matter.2003 03:31:26]
. and its destruction and preservation are due to the alternate function of the fiery lives as "destroyers" and "builders. Nor does the writer pretend to know more of this strange symbol than may be inferred about it from exoteric religions. 1. properties. years before the time allotted him by Nature. and. and.constitutes the basis of MAGIC. sec 7a
interference of microbes.The Secret Doctrine by H.that of material prana (or life). physiological Magic would have fewer secrets for the civilized world than it now has. An analogy between cosmic events in the descent of spirit into matter for the first half of a manvantara
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experimenters as Pasteur are the best friends and helpers of the Destroyers and the worst enemies of the Creators -.theosociety. which underlies the Matsya (fish)
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[[Footnote continued from previous page]] removed and the microbes. Sin and Moon" make conjointly the three symbols of the immortal Being. by supplying the microbes with what is necessary. though only on that plane. 1. Thus. bk 1. during the first half of a man's life (the first five periods of seven years each) the "fiery lives" are indirectly engaged in the process of building up man's material body. (d) But what has the Moon to do in all this? we may be asked. vol. it is ascertained that the animal does produce venomous substances in its physiological or living state. who was versed in this mystery. from the mystery perhaps. they compel them under that restraint to build up the material body and its cells.05. and the force is used in construction and increase. The microbes of science are the first and lowest sub-division on the second plane -." They are "builders" by sacrificing themselves in the form of vitality to restrain the destructive influence of the microbes. Blavatsky. except availing themselves of the tabernacle of clay prepared by them. unsupplied with vital constructive energy. and conditions of change -. What have "Fish.

the Chaldean Oannes -.the microbes -. to show that the said superstition belongs to the most ancient beliefs. and the ruin so commenced steadily progresses.The Secret Doctrine by H. Pisces. the Pitris.is confirmed by the fact mentioned in the foot-note on Pasteur (vide supra) that the cells of the organs. or the first man) THE THREAD BETWEEN THE SILENT WATCHER AND HIS SHADOW BECOMES MORE
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* Phallic worship has developed only with the loss of the keys to the true meaning of the symbols. 1. This is now proven beyond doubt and cavil. which.Continued. ruin the latter. and the esotericism of the Bible. As it is useless to discuss them in detail. when they do not find sufficient oxygen for themselves. vol.. because of the lunar influence on women and conception. 1. and with the latter is to this day. sec 7a
(planetary as human) and its ascent at the expense of matter in the second half. may here be traced. we may only stop at present to discuss the lunar symbology casually. interpreted Kabalistically. by absorbing oxygen from substances coming in contact with them. and the Moon -. To make the whole clearer and to show at the same time the enormous difference in the spirit of interpretation and the original meaning of the same symbols between the ancient Eastern Occultists and the Jewish Kabalists we refer the reader to Book II. For the present it may be as well to remind the reader that while the Moon-goddesses were connected in every mythology. and of Genesis especially. shows undeniably the Holy of Holies in the temple to be only the symbol of the womb. by the numerical reading of the Bible in general. which regards every popular practice in this reference as gross superstition.the Man-Fish.
[[Vol.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. bk 1. -. Thus the process is commenced by one cell robbing its neighbour of the source of its vitality when the supply is insufficient. with child-birth.in so far as it relates to the "Lunar" ancestors. the occult and actual connection of our satellite with fecundation is to this day unknown to physiology. With the Israelites.
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. but the restraining influence of the "fiery lives" on the lowest sub-division of the second plane -. This idea must certainly have been borrowed by the Jews from the Egyptians and Indians. whose Holy of Holies was. Blavatsky. recorded in the imperishable sign of the Zodiac. 6. adapt themselves to that condition and form ferments. It was the last and most fatal turning point from the highway of truth and divine knowledge into the side
http://www.htm (23 von 27) [06. FROM THE FIRST-BORN (primitive. "The Holy of Holies. and running throughout the two Testaments in the personages of Joshua "Son of the Fish (Nun)" and Jesus.05. the chief function of Jehovah was child-giving. Page]] 264 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. the allegorical "Sin" or Fall of Spirit into matter. P.theosociety."* ------STANZA VII. especially the Grecian. and even to Judaism -the basis of Christianity. These considerations have to do solely with the plane of matter. symbolised by the King's chamber in the Great Pyramid (see "Source of Measures") and the Yoni symbols of exoteric Hinduism.

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STRONG AND RADIANT WITH EVERY CHANGE (re-incarnation) (a).are one. 1. with Paramatma (the one Universal Spirit). bk 1.htm (24 von 27) [06. THIS IS THY PRESENT WHEEL -. everything will be "merged in Brahma" or the divine unity. raised into dogma through human falsification and hierarchic ambition. in this. distinct from others.Continued. AND REIGN OVER MEN -WHO ARE THEMSELVES (b). Page]] 265 MAN.are one. Present.05. .the Past. "My Father. it is the faithful echo of the esoteric tenet. P. the Monad of every living being. Page]] 266 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 1. sec 7a
path of fiction. and it is in this that lies the mystery of that ubiquity. and I -. "BE WITH US. as other critics -. . . I HAVE CLOTHED MYSELF IN THEE.
Humanities. is at the upper rung of the ladder of being.when Pralaya will have reduced not only material and psychical bodies. MY IMAGE AND MY SHADOW.theosociety. AND THOU ART MY VAHAN (vehicle) TO THE DAY. THYSELF AND ME (a). or the divine prototype. Blavatsky. that will find its explanation in Book II.is another psychological mystery." as the Stanza has it -. (a) The day when "the spark will re-become the Flame (man will merge into his Dhyan Chohan) myself and others. during one special Manvantara. of course. a kind of spiritual individuality of its own." WHEN THOU SHALT RE-BECOME MYSELF AND OTHERS. unless his moral turpitude breaks the connection and runs loose and "astray into the lunar path" -to use the Occult expression -.the latter numbering as many as there are re-incarnations for the monad -. 7. the Spirit (Atman) is one. the Buddhi. (a) This sentence: "The thread between the silent watcher and his shadow (man) becomes stronger" -with every re-incarnation -. will be one and the same. but the vehicle (Vahan) it is enshrined in. THOU ART MYSELF. THEN THE BUILDERS. THE MORNING SUNLIGHT HAS CHANGED INTO NOON-DAY GLORY .
[[Vol. THE SHADOW OF HIS PROTOTYPE. is part and parcel of that Dhyan-Chohanic Essence. that is in Heaven. HAVING DONNED THEIR FIRST CLOTHING. at any rate.means this: In Paranirvana -. Everything will have re-entered the Great Breath. The Watcher. Is this annihilation. which was discussed a few pages back. Withal.the worshippers of a personal deity
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[[Vol. DESCEND ON RADIANT EARTH. but even the spiritual Ego(s) to their original principle -. as some think? Or Atheism. In other words. at the lower. ------STANZA VII. the shadow.The Secret Doctrine by H. -. like all things.SAID THE FLAME TO THE SPARK." -says the Christian Scripture.

htm (25 von 27) [06. however limitless . as well as the Chaldeans. scarcely reach this plane of thought. lost every recollection of their divine origin -.lost.that he. To see in Nirvana annihilation amounts to saying of a man plunged in a sound dreamless sleep -. to describe which human language is absolutely and hopelessly inadequate. And that Doctrine says that the Dhyani-Buddhas of the two higher groups." furnished the many and various races with divine kings and leaders. the Watchers descended on Earth and reigned over men -.2003 03:31:26]
."who are themselves. namely. on a far higher plane. and it is the Elect of our Humanity. as the Secret Doctrine teaches history -. since re-absorption is by no means such a "dreamless sleep. P. it is difficult to understand how all the peoples under the sun. PEOPLED FROM HEAVEN. the "Watchers" or the "Architects. Nor is the individuality -. an unconditioned unity. therefore. bk 1. after which it is the Patriarchs.the paranirvanic state.of gods reigning over men followed by dynasties of Heroes or Giants -. as a still higher being.* However. for being esoteric and traditional. But since traditions and even Chronicles of such dynasties of divine Kings -. is none the less more reliable than profane history -. Once reached. if any be left behind -. some of whom are separated by vast
[[Vol." but." The reigning kings had finished their cycle on Earth and other worlds. too. The human mind cannot in its present stage of development transcend. The latter simile answers only to one side of the question -. up to King Menes and the human kings of other nations. the same monad will re-emerge therefrom. (b) The "Watchers" reign over man during the whole period of Satya Yuga and the smaller subsequent yugas.theosociety. For. the Pioneers on the hard and difficult path of Progress. as expressed in the Stanza. "Divine Dynasties. In the future manvantaras they will have risen to higher systems than our planetary world. Heroes.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. could have worked out the same "fairy tales" in the same order of events.05.and who had. It totters here.one that leaves no impression on the physical memory and brain. and the former who revealed to the incarnated Monads that had just shaken off their vehicles of the lower Kingdoms -. absolute existence. it has yet a limit in Eternity.the most material. Page]] 267 EARTH. who will take the places of their predecessors. It is the latter who taught humanity their arts and sciences. in the preceding Rounds.are inclined to suppose? Neither. on the brink of incomprehensible Absoluteness and Eternity. down to the beginning of the Third Root Race. and the Manes (see Egyptian Dynasties enumerated by the priests to Solon). because re-absorbed.which. The next great Manvantara will witness the men of our own life-cycle
http://www.from a human standpoint -. It is worse than useless to return to the question of implied atheism in that which is spirituality of a most refined character.exist in the annals of every nation. The only approach to anything like a comprehensive conception of it can be attempted solely in the panoramic visions of the soul.
oceans and belong to different hemispheres.we are as entitled to our beliefs as anyone else. because the sleeper's Higher Self is in its original state of absolute consciousness during those hours -. whether religionist or sceptic. to recommence its cycle of perfected activity. sec 7a
and believers in an unphilosophical paradise -. the incarnated Dhyanis of a lower order.") Thus. vol. In the views of symbologists this Mythopoeic Age is of course only regarded as a fairy tale. 1. or a state.nor even the essence of the personality.The Secret Doctrine by H.. all were recorded carefully. on the contrary. is annihilated. Blavatsky. such as the ancient Peruvians and Mexicans.the great spiritual truths of the transcendental worlds. (See Book II. 1. through spiritual ideations of the divine monad.

in Septennial nature.theosociety. 1.The Secret Doctrine by H. to resurrect from the many into the One Life. 1. Thus proceed the cycles of the septenary evolution. down to matter in full generation. and then back again.2003 03:31:26]
. centrifugal and centripetal way. Page]] 268 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.in the most intellectual of the animal kingdom. This." Starting upon the long journey immaculate." by Auguste le Plongeon. The ancient hieratic alphabets of the Maya and the Egyptians are almost identical. plunged into the incomprehensible absolute Being and Bliss of Paranirvana. may reach through individual merits and efforts that plane where it re-becomes the one unconditioned ALL. is the one depending upon and subservient to
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* See the "Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches. human. But between the Alpha and the Omega there is the weary "Road" hedged in by thorns. the outbreathings of the One Life. the Spiritual or divine. . reascending at each new period higher and nearer the final goal.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-12. seven in their aspects. when he has identified himself with collective Humanity. the "God" has now to ascend the weary uphill path of the Golgotha of Life. P. All these evolve and progress cyclically. having struggled through and suffered in every form of life and being. to the very end . perhaps.
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becoming the instructors and guides of a mankind whose Monads may now yet be imprisoned -. Like Visvakarman he has to sacrifice himself to himself in order to redeem all creatures. or cognitional. through the mixed natures of the semi-terrestrial. and the other as the last "Kalki Avatar.htm (26 von 27) [06.
[[Vol. while their lower principles will be animating." which one portion of humanity expects in its dead-letter sense as the second advent. Then he ascends into heaven indeed. that each atom. each the microcosm of its higher macrocosm. where. the passional. Blavatsky. animal and vegetable life. who shows the identity between the Egyptian rites and beliefs and those of the people he describes. in order that through the Ever-Becoming.* Thus far. .semiconscious -. and having connected himself with every atom in manifested Space -. 11. in a double. sentient. one in their ultimate essence. he has made in his own image. descending more and more into sinful matter.05. and half through his cycle. the intellectual. passing from the formless and the intangible. every cosmic atom in this infinite Universe. vol. that "goes down first. the psychic or semi-divine. then -Winds up hill all the way Yes. the semicorporeal and the purely material or physical natures. is only at the bottom of the valley of matter. we say.500 years ago. the instinctual. It is the martyrdom of self-conscious existence. The lowest. which manifests periodically. for individual. he reigns unconditionally. for purposes of the collective progress of the countless lives. . The same for the Universe. In order to progress upwards and homewards. of course. and whence he will re-descend again at the next "coming. the highest specimens of the Vegetable world. . passing from one into another."
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The Secret Doctrine by H.theosociety. It is not traced on any crumbling papyrus of Egypt.
SUMMING UP.C. and known to.impressed upon the plastic minds of the first races endowed with Consciousness by those who reflected the same from the Universal Mind -. who credit the oldest with being written probably about 600 years B. The name. However incomplete and feeble as an exposition.. the nature of Deity. Subba Row. The Upanishads are to the Vedas what the Kabala is to the Jewish Bible." These treatises form part of the Sruti or "revealed knowledge.http://www. They speak of the origin of the Universe. for it pertains to their synthesis -. It is not taught in any of the six Indian schools of philosophy. But the failures in this work must be forgiven for the sake of the motive." is usually translated "esoteric doctrine. and their priceless thesaurus." (T. There are over 150 Upanishads enumerated by. 1881. Page]] 269 THE FIRST CHAPTER OF CREATION.the seventh. 1
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[[Vol. "Upanishads. 1. spiritual knowledge" -. The reason for this I venture to state here as I learned it from a Master.Vol. at any rate.is daring.htm (1 von 26) [06. save the Sanskrit -. P. The attempt to render in a European tongue the grand panorama of the ever periodically recurring Law -.05. Page]] 270 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Blavatsky -. Theosophist. as also of the metaphysical connection of mind and matter. The seventh chapter is not yet written. The Books of the Vedanta (the last word of human knowledge) give out but the metaphysical aspect of this world-Cosmogony. and of Spirit and Soul. In a few words: They CONTAIN the beginning and
http://www.require now the additional possession of a Master-key to enable the student to get at their full meaning. the Upanishads -Upa-ni-shad being a compound word meaning "the conquest of ignorance by the revelation of secret.* as their third division.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.) THE first of these Seven chapters has been attempted and is now finished. 1. nor is it any longer graven on Assyrian tile or granite wall. for no human language.
"The History of Creation and of this world from its beginning up to the present time is composed of seven chapters. neither the foregoing nor what follows can be found in full anywhere.which is that of the Gods -can do so with any degree of adequacy. which is the Occult doctrine. They treat of and expound the secret and mystic meaning of the Vedic texts. and are generally attached to the Brahmana
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. Such is the esoteric tradition beyond the Himalayas. Page]] 271 OCCULTISM IN THE UPANISHADS.and this in all the Upanishads -. one word of the texts. "a freedom of thought unknown in any earlier work except in the Rig Veda hymns themselves. Five Years of Theosophy. One thing in them -. before the caste system became the tyrannical institution which it still is. wrote many a Bhashya on the Upanishads. however.05. which have.theosociety." (T. have not yet fallen into the
http://www.http://www. But his original treatises. the Upanishads could not be called esoteric. without altering. a few centuries after the invasion of India by the "twice-born. Learned pundits and philologists of course deny that swara has anything to do with philosophy or ancient esoteric doctrines.* the Disciple of the Brahmins. feeling indignant because the sacred wisdom was thus withheld from all but the Brahmins. and the Brahmins were thus in a position to publicly deny the correctness of Buddha's teaching by appealing to their Upanishads. but they have now ceased to REVEAL it. determined to save the whole world by popularizing it. 1. and (b) that half of their contents have been eliminated.theosociety. the greatest Initiate living in the historical ages. and proves (a) that they were written.one expressed by the literal sense of the words.while no one else had the right to study or even read them outside of the sacred caste. the Prince of Kapilavastu.htm
the end of all human knowledge. while some of them were rewritten and abridged. become accessible even to the Mlechchhas (out-castes) and the European Orientalists. since the day of Buddha. which led to the exclusiveness of the present caste system among the Brahmins. on Buddha's life. ." They were complete in those days.)
[[Vol. 154.which are as the life of the Vedas. but the mysterious connection between swara and light is one of its most profound secrets. since they are now openly attached to the Sacred Brahmanical books. the most important portions containing the last word of the Mystery of Being. If it were otherwise. . in some of their portions.invariably and constantly points to their ancient origin. the other indicated by the metre and the swara -. from those of the "Teachers of Life" inhabiting the snowy ranges of the Himalaya.intonation -.htm (2 von 26) [06. seeing that their sacred knowledge and Occult wisdom was falling into the hands of the "Mlechchhas. and were used for the instruction of the chelas who were preparing for their initiation. in our present age. p. Subba Row. It says that the Upanishads were originally attached to their Brahmanas after the beginning of a reform. the Upanishads "breathe an entirely different spirit" (from other Brahmanical writings). The key to the Brahmanical secret code remained henceforth with the initiates alone. "The great Teachers of the higher Knowledge and the Brahmans are continually represented as going to Kshatriya (military caste) kings to become their pupils. silenced for ever on the chief questions. Then it was that the Brahmins. if at all. originally containing thrice the matter of the Vedas and the Brahmanas together.
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* "The Vedas have a distinct dual meaning -. They simply detached from the MSS.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13." abridged the texts of the Upanishads. After learning the whole of the Brahmanical wisdom in the Rahasya or the Upanishads." The second fact is explained by a tradition recorded in one of the MSS. Sri Sankaracharya. as there are reasons to suppose.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.

except the Smartava Brahmins. that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal. have occasionally real Initiates at their head in their mathams. yet all that could be done was done under every adverse circumstance. in the bewildering series of evolutionary progress.g. The flashing gaze of those seers has penetrated into the very kernel of matter. owing to the intrinsic difficulties of the subjects treated. On the other hand. as the great seat of Occult learning from time immemorial." and of the "Fire-Mist" and the "Brothers of the Sun" in the Chinese records.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. 1.htm (3 von 26) [06. I am informed. how difficult. for they are too jealously preserved in his maths (monasteries. But modern science believes not in the "soul of things. But. to set down and explain. Not that any claim to infallibility.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. or to perfect correctness in every detail of all that which is herein said. Let us recapitulate and show. founded by Sankaracharya. would have perceived but the external work of form.. The Emperor Yu.htm
hands of the Philistines. in the "Sringa-giri. it is more than probable that the writer has failed to present the explanations in the best and in the clearest form. is said to have obtained his knowledge from the "great teachers of the Snowy Range" in Si-dzang.). and they can hardly be denied.C.http://www. more exclusive than is the Smartava. Si-dzang (Tibet) is mentioned in the MSS.theosociety. where an ordinary profane. is only equalled by their pride and learning. and the reticence of its followers to say what they may know of the Occult sciences and the esoteric doctrine. mathams). of the sacred library of the province of FoKien. was ever put forward. it is to do them full justice.) The Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages. It is useless to say that the system in question is no fancy of one or
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[[Vol. But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism. there is no sect in that desperately exclusive caste of the Brahmins. Page]] 272 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. will remain for ages yet a dead letter to most of the Hindus. the "great" (2. if not impossible. however learned. and recorded the soul of things there." in the Western Ghats of Mysore. and this is the utmost that can be expected of any writer.05.207 years B. and the almost insurmountable limitations of the English tongue (as of all other European languages) to express certain ideas.
dead letter of the Bhashyas. And there are still weightier reasons to believe that the priceless Bhashyas (Commentaries) on the esoteric doctrine of the Brahmins. The reason of this is that they alone. and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e. a pious mystic and great adept. Therefore the writer of the present statement must be prepared beforehand to meet with great opposition and even the denial of such statements as are brought forward in this work. ages before Buddha. (1." and hence will reject the whole system of ancient cosmogony.theosociety. even in the exotericism of the Puranas. by the vastness of the subjects expounded. This sect.2003 03:31:33]
. by their greatest expounder. Facts are there. as for instance. (which is still very powerful in Southern India) is now almost the only one to produce students who have preserved sufficient knowledge to comprehend the
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. Its impersonality is the fundamental conception of the System. visible and invisible SPACE.) The fundamental Law in that system.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. its first manifestation. even in the conception of the One Logos. not teaching.
the One Logos as Mulaprakriti and not as Parabrahmam. (2. That it is the uninterrupted record covering thousands of generations of Seers whose respective experiences were made to test and to verify the
[[Vol. i. It is latent in every atom in the Universe. testing. to which. 1. an illusion. while it remains a "principle" in the beginningless and endless abstract.http://www. . that can be conceived by human intellect. No vision of one adept was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions -. How did they do so? It is answered: by checking.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.) The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. "Some few. Page]] 273 THE PITH AND MARROW OF OCCULTISM. and spiritual organisations to the utmost possible degree. is to sin against the very spirit of the philosophy.theosociety. and is the Universe itself. (See in chapters on Symbolism.
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[[Vol. . as the able lecturer in the "Notes on the Bhagavadgita" shows.05. the one radical cause. have been led From cause to cause to nature's secret head. "Primordial Substance. Page]] 274 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. whose lamps shone brighter. yet two in the Universal conception of the manifested. And found that one first Principle must be. around and toward which all gravitates. . in reality.e. of the teachings of higher and exalted beings.") (3. as its veil and not the one REALITY hidden behind. and Divine Thought.theosociety. men who have developed and perfected their physical. and upon which is hung the philosophy of the rest. For though the noun may be derived in this case from the verb esse. It is the omnipresent Reality: impersonal. and by centuries of experiences. the central point from which all emerged. but both. . To call it "essence." yet IT cannot be identified with a being of any kind. psychic. .htm
several isolated individuals." It is called "Substance-Principle.so obtained as to stand as independent evidence -.
http://www. "to be. the "Wise Men" of the Fifth Race. "Parabrahmam and Mulaprakriti" are One. . That for long ages.of other adepts. because it contains all and everything. is the One homogeneous divine SUBSTANCE-PRINCIPLE. mental. which is unconditioned and absolute. IT is best described as neither Spirit nor matter. had passed their lives in learning. and verifying in every department of nature the traditions of old by the independent visions of great adepts. who watched over the childhood of Humanity." however. of the stock saved and rescued from the last cataclysm and shifting of continents.

(6. That which is meant by "personality. in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse.) The Universe is called. each having a mission to perform.
respective degrees of consciousness and intelligence. with everything in it. for whom it was the Universals that were the realities and the particulars which existed only in name and human fancy.htm
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. and thought or mind. as defined by Coleridge. because (a) they have no longer fleshly bodies -.the microcosm and miniature copy of the macrocosm -.htm (5 von 26) [06.theosociety. (5. whether voluntary or mechanical. We men must remember that because we do not perceive any signs -. We see that every external motion. and differ morally from the terrestrial human beings on their higher (less material) spheres." have become free from those feelings. because all is temporary therein. must be necessarily. For each of these Beings either was.which we can recognise -. is CONSCIOUS: i. men. and to call them all pure Spirits without any of the earthly alloy "which time is wont to prey upon" is only to indulge in poetical fancy. say. they are less influenced by maya than man can ever be. or the "perfected. in the mind of a philosopher. or prepares to become. They are perfected. we have no right to say that no consciousness exists there. gesture. then in a past or a coming cycle (Manvantara). can have no sense of personality or EGOism. given through one of the three functions named. and who -..org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.are "messengers" in the sense only that they are the agents of Karmic and Cosmic Laws. throughout all its kingdoms. with its evanescent ever-changing forms. "individuality existing in itself but with a nature as a ground. These find no place among the conceptions of Occult philosophy. from the ephemeral life of a fire-fly to that of the Sun. and to the mode of its action.05.whether we give to them one name or another. in stones.two purely earthly characteristics. it resembles therein the mediaeval Nominalists. the Universe.theosociety. unless he is an adept who keeps his two personalities -.of consciousness. when not incipient. having never had terrestrial bodies yet.) The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion. will or volition. The whole Kosmos is guided. 1.the spiritual and the physical -. and man -. The former.) Everything in the Universe. The incipient monads.an ever-numbing weight on the Soul. or.e. and (b) the pure spiritual element being left untrammelled and more free. when normal.is the living witness to this Universal Law. and the changelessness of that Principle. The latter never stops at surface appearances." being a limitation and a relation. MAYA. which are as unreal as it is itself. Page]] 275 THE NATURE OF THE CELESTIAL MEN. They vary infinitely in their
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. they have no individuality in the sense in which a man says. Page]] 276 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. even during his terrestrial life. while its differentiated clothing is as perishable as man's body. and is more despotic in his vanity than any finite foolish man." Thus it is.
radiates on the shores of the river of Life. have either individuality or personality as separate Entities. the purer and the less accentuated that individuality in the Hierarchy. and arriving thereby at the full knowledge of the non-separateness of his higher SELF from the One absolute SELF. man can. in all respects. "I am myself and no one else. about the true essence and nature of matter. They are neither "ministering" nor "protecting" angels. the slaves and creatures of immutable Karmic and Kosmic law. Individuality is the characteristic of their respective hierarchies. in their exoteric religions.theosociety. It is on the
http://www. Having no elements of personality in their essence they can have no personal qualities. beings in whom life cannot become extinct.a jealous and exclusive God who rejoices and feels wrathful. They are finite. and once on their plane the Spirit of Solidarity and perfect Harmony." in other words. must extend over him and protect him in every particular. not of their units.e. in one sense. high or low. except some Occultists and Kabalists. as shown in Book II. none of these Beings. while preserving a blind belief in the "Spirits" of the Departed. as a fact insisted upon by generations of Seers. "Man can neither propitiate nor command the Devas. that man becomes like one of the Elohim or the Dhyanis. is pleased with sacrifice. being a compound of the essences of all those celestial Hierarchies may succeed in making himself.http://www." because they are the streams projected on the Kosmic screen of illusion from the ABSOLUTE LIFE. To appeal to their protection is as foolish as to believe that their sympathy may be secured by any kind of propitiation. The reason for it is evident. The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. which reigns in every Hierarchy. to their anthropomorphic God -. as much as man himself is.05.htm
applied to non-human entities. by eating of the fruit of knowledge which dispels ignorance." it is said. as such.individualized and separated only on the spheres of Illusion by a differentiation as illusive as the rest.theosociety. but. the reflection of the great Central Sun that
[[Vol. it is the inner principle in them which belongs to the waters of immortality.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. such as attributed by men. for they are.htm (6 von 26) [06." Having sprung into being under the quickening influence of the uncreated beam.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. they are conscious of no such distinct separateness as men and things have on earth. or even combination of them. 1. i.. Therefore Young was right in saying that "Angels are men of a superior kind" and no more.the immortal sparks reflecting the universal divine flame -. is the general ignorance of all. before the fire of ignorance is extinct in those who sense these "Lives. They are "Living Ones. The main impediment before the Spiritualist which hinders him from believing in the same. nor are they "Harbingers of the Most High" still less the "Messengers of wrath" of any God such as man's fancy has created. with the exception of their higher principles -. Man. But. and these characteristics vary only with the degree of the plane to which those hierarchies belong: the nearer to the region of Homogeneity and the One Divine. superior.

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[[Vol." though so cruel in their immediate action -. They can have no human consciousness or Intelligence before they have acquired such. personally and individually. and a very apparent one too. 1.is a proof to the Occultist that that Being must have been a man. and acquired his knowledge and intelligence throughout the human cycle. This may be a mystery.
[[Vol.all are working toward the grand end. The immutable laws that weed out the weak and feeble species. in its ultimate Essence. That fact alone -. that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. As from the highest Archangel (Dhyan Chohan) down to the last conscious "Builder" (the inferior class of Spiritual Entities). and thus an aspect (on the manifested plane) of the ABSOLUTE consciousness. cannot be "unconscious. Where is that daring man who would presume to deny to vegetation and even to minerals a consciousness of their own. and which people call SPACE. In sober truth.that a Spirit is endowed with intelligence -. and for the only sure clue which can guide his subsequent studies.
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acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature. The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. All he can say is. and which ensure the "survival of the fittest.
It is on the right comprehension of the primeval Evolution of Spirit-Matter and its real essence that the student has to depend for the further elucidation in his mind of the Occult Cosmogony. But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. There is but one indivisible and absolute Omniscience and Intelligence in the Universe.are all future men.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. that this consciousness is beyond his comprehension. The whole process of evolution with its endless adaptations is a proof of this. in other Manvantaras. yet it is a fact. shows that what is called "unconscious Nature"* is in reality an aggregate of forces mani[[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]
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. 1. Page]] 277 MANY BODIES BUT ONE SOUL. on this or other Spheres. semi-intelligent and non-intelligent Elementals -. having lived aeons ago.

http://www. only.whenever and wherever possible -. and.made to pass for scientific dicta -. as confessed before. as materialistic Scientists can be fought solely with their own weapons -. very incorrectly at times. (Dhyan Chohans). of the realities behind the snares of Mahamaya. and to bulwark our doctrines against the too strong attacks of modern Sectarianism. than any other ancient Scriptures left to be regarded and judged on their exoteric aspect. whose collective aggregate forms the manifested verbum of the unmanifested LOGOS. and calls the first one. the Ever Existing. and constitutes at one and the same time the MIND of the Universe and its immutable LAW. they -. by the three trinities emanating from the Central eternal germ and forming with it a Supreme Unity: the initial. Since.the world of illusion. and shadow thereof. fancying that Truth is the exclusive property of the Western world. The writer hopes that. by the Chinese as by the Grecian Sages. the student is invited to use his own intuitions.2003 03:31:33]
.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. is taught to scoff at anything brought forward from "heathen" sources. and men and things are thus but the reflections. the reflection. or the three in One. and more especially against those of our latter-day Materialism. During the great mystery and drama of life known as the Manvantara. This was taught in every philosophy. in exoteric teachings. Page]] 279 HERMES. in India and Chaldea.in its universal character.
http://www. while blindly accepting everything that emanates from "authorities.theosociety." the hidden knowledge. superficially handled as may be the comments on the Seven Stanzas.theosociety. the manifested. Our chief care is to elucidate that which has already been given out. and the Creative Triad. whereas. is the seventh. this work withholds far more than it gives out. Therefore. we say.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. however.htm (8 von 26) [06." and feeling it to be its duty to regard every dictum coming from a man of Science as a proven fact -.the public. Hence Esoteric philosophy passes over the necessarianism of this purely metaphysical conception. in every religion.to Aristotle as against intuition and the experience of the ages. on the white field. Three distinct representations of the Universe in its three distinct aspects are impressed upon our thought by the esoteric philosophy: the PRE-EXISTING (evolved from) the EVER-EXISTING.an Addendum is added to every Book contrasting our respective views and showing how even great authorities may often err. the public. 1. This is the view of every one of the six great schools of Indian philosophy -. ante as well as post diluvian. Hence the disagreement.to be incorrect. The actual figures and things remain invisible. very often miscalled Science. or the great Illusion.by addi-
[[Vol. in its concrete expression. in reality.htm
pulated by semi-intelligent beings (Elementals) guided by High Planetary Spirits.those of controversy and argument -. The last is but the symbol. the words "Scientists" and "Sciolists" ought alone to bear the responsibility for the many illogical theories offered to the world. real Kosmos is like the object placed behind the white screen upon which are thrown the Chinese shadows. In the former countries these three Universes were allegorized.05. In its great ignorance.the six principles of that unit body of WISDOM of which the "gnosis. We hold to Hermes and his "Wisdom" -. of the first ideal two. We believe that this can be done effectually by showing the weak points of our opponents. enough has been given in this cosmogonic portion of the work to show Archaic teachings to be more scientific (in the modern sense of the word) on their very face. and by proving their too frequent sophisms -. to supplement the knowledge hinted at -. and the PHENOMENAL -. called forth by the magic lantern. OR ARISTOTLE?
tional matter. while the wires of evolution are pulled by the unseen hands. to our regret.

It is the Upadhi (the physical basis) for the One infinite Universal Mind to build
http://www. Those who worship before it. save through "the still small voice" of our spiritual consciousness.invisible. by becoming to the best of his ability a co-worker with nature in the cyclic task.htm
As Hermes says. inherent in matter. ought to do so in the silence and the sanctified solitude of their Souls*. unmentioned. a Demi-urgos -. thus emphasizing the contrast between the laboriously acquired knowledge of the senses and mind (manas). and (b) the intelligent soul or cosmic consciousness which directs and guides that energy. in our case the plan was furnished by the Ideation of the Universe. Page]] 280 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.. All are entitled to the grateful reverence of Humanity. and since. but Knowledge (gyi) is the end of sense" -.theosociety. and the intuitive omniscience of the Spiritual divine Soul -. including every anthropomorphic god.in the sense implied when one speaks of an "Architect" as the "Creator" of an edifice. it still shows gaps and flaws. and even results very often in evident failures -. however. -. As to the latter -(3) They are dual in their character. 1. an imperfect extra-cosmic god. left all the manual labour to the masons. and which is the Dhyan-Chohanic thought reflecting the Ideation of the Universal mind.e.") (4) Matter is Eternal. for sense is of things that surmount it. making their spirit the sole mediator between them and the Universal Spirit. nor any of the working powers individually. the whole being subservient to Karma. whereas that Architect has never touched one stone of it.Buddhi.i.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.
personal deity. the Causeless Cause of all causes. Whatever may be the destiny of these actual writings in a remote future.therefore. except in the Hindu sense of the word nastika. and the constructive labour was left to the Hosts of intelligent Powers and Forces.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. we hope to have proven so far the following facts: (1) The Secret Doctrine teaches no Atheism. intangible. or the rejection of idols. their good actions the only priests.e. As that process is not always perfect. -.i.http://www. but. "On the Hidden Deity.theosociety.htm (9 von 26) [06. while furnishing the plan.but only the aggregate of the Dhyan-Chohans and the other forces. however many proofs it may exhibit of a guiding intelligence behind the veil. of the illusion of our physical brain and its intellect.. and their sinful intentions the only visible and objective sacrificial victims to the Presence. The ever unknowable and incognizable Karana alone. and man ought to be ever striving to help the divine evolution of Ideas. during manvantaric periods. neither the collective Host (Demiurgos).. being composed of (a) the irrational brute energy. But that Demiurgos is no
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. (2) It admits a Logos or a collective "Creator" of the Universe. are proper subjects for divine honours or worship. In this sense every Occultist is a Nastika.

Matter not yet engendered had no form." (Paracelsus."the innate. now it 'becomes.
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* "When thou prayest. 44. not outside. often appearing merely a personification of a "force behind phenomena" -.) (5.theosociety.htm
thereon its ideations. eternal. p. 1. in Nature. the Esotericists maintain that there is no inorganic or dead matter in nature. matter (objective) is brought into birth. in the "inner chamber" of our Soul perception.). from time immemorial -. Menard observes that in Greek the same word signifies to be born and to become.from Manu and Hermes down to Paracelsus and his successors.theosociety.05."* Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. but enter into thine inner chamber and having shut thy door. "Philosophia ad Athenienes. according to the
http://www. says: "Oh. the thrice great Trismegistus.) Kingsford. Our Father is within us "in Secret. The "unknowable" of Herbert Spencer bears only a faint resemblance to that transcendental Reality believed in by Occultists. Therefore." F. "Dr. now reflected by Von Hartmann. . . This is practically identical with the conclusions of the highest Western Philosophy -. thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are ." (The Definitions of Asclepios. my son.' that is. formerly it was.) The Universe was evolved out of its ideal plan. "Virgin of the World. Having been endowed with the germs of becoming. it is mobile and progressive. and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. upheld through Eternity in the unconsciousness of that which the Vedantins call Parabrahm.an infinite and eternal Energy
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. the able translator and compiler of the Hermetic Fragments (see "The Virgin of the World") remarks in a foot-note.and exact Science is a fickle dame. it becomes when it is put into operation.
Whatever Science may think. as we all know by experience -. for the creative force fashions it according to the ideal forms. according to Hermetic thought (or which. . who. There is nothing dead. matter becomes. Hartmann's translations." our 7th principle.") "Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. the distinction between the two made by Science being as unfounded as it is arbitrary and devoid of reason. Page]] 281 MATTER IS THE SHADOW OF SPIRIT.htm (10 von 26) [06. for matter is the vehicle of becoming." And she adds the purely Vedantic doctrine of the Hermetic philosophy that "Creation is thus the period of activity (Manvantara) of God. and self-existing Ideas" of Plato. 134. p. however -. . Everything is organic and living. but that before creation or 'becoming' it is in a passive and motionless condition. pray to thy Father which is in secret. "The Kingdom of Heaven" and of God "is within us" says Jesus.http://www. Why are Christians so absolutely blind to the selfevident meaning of the words of wisdom they delight in mechanically repeating?
[[Vol." Matt.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.Occultism knows and teaches differently. . (Dr. vi.

the two being the one Primordial Force. More than this. God evolved (Deus explicitus). besides their own. nor that of any animal. as are the waking and sleeping states of man." i. the Spiritual Beings (or Gods) whose duty it was to bring them into objective being and terrestrial Life. the elements of all the past vegetable and future animal forms of this globe in them. distinguished Being (Seyn) as One.htm
Vedantin) has two modes -. Hartmann.theosociety. or expanding from within outwards. when they pass away. plant or stone has ever been created. while the author of the "Philosophy of the Unconscious" has come (in this respect only) as near to a solution of the great Mystery as mortal man can. Neither the form of man. or basic mould was ready. or evolve in his imagination. and it is only on this plane of ours that it commenced "becoming.* and thus causing it to become objective on the plane of Illusion. the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to 'becoming'" (p. even the countless forms.05. which we know only through existence (Dasein) as the Manifold. according to which models. Page]] 282 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. not in their ideal Form. in his "Life of Paracelsus. F. when this human Upadhi. or from the Noumenal to the Phenomenal plane. and Passivity of Being (Pralaya) God involved (Deus implicitus). at least as an approximation. in the Eternity. that no such form or shape can possibly enter man's consciousness." All the Christian Kabalists understood well the Eastern root idea: The active Power. will exist as reflections. Few were those.theosociety.. eternally IS. 1.S. objectivising into its present materiality. His ideas are admirably synthesized by Dr.** and.
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. In other words. Fichte. the "Perpetual motion of the great Breath" only awakens Kosmos at the dawn of every new Period.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. 134). man's outward shell passed through every vegetable and animal body before it assumed the human shape. Paracelsus mentions it inferentially. As this will be fully
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from which all things proceed.. setting it into motion by means of the two contrary Forces. They existed as Ideas. Both modes are perfect and complete. physical and spiritual.
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.e. whether in ancient or mediaeval philosophy.Activity or Existence. The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas of the Neo-Platonists. This view is thoroughly Hermetic. the natural terrestrial Forces began to work on those supersensuous moulds which contained. Therefore. that dual motion transfers Kosmos from the plane of the Eternal Ideal into that of finite manifestation. who have dared to approach the subject or even hint at it.

personified in the dual character of Macro. Hartmann from the original texts of Paracelsus before him. a spiritual force. or the proto-ilos -. that the great Limbus takes its origin from the Word.theosociety.is contained the substance from which everything is formed. or Yliaster of Paracelsus." In this Ideos of primordial matter. called respectively Mysterium magnum. in the same sense as a tree grows out of a small seed. by evolution and division in Mysteria Specialia. . and the little Limbus is each ultimate
http://www. and manifests itself not only as vital activity. melted and dissolved. Dr. . . This Primordial essence is of a monistic nature. applied the term Microcosm to man. an invisible. "When Evolution took place the Yliaster divided itself. while the Limbus minor (the terrestrial seed or sperm) takes it from the earth." ** It is only the mediaeval Kabalists who. developing from within itself the Ideos or Chaos.. 1. 42). Ancient philosophy called the Earth the Microcosm of the Macrocosm. justly observe that "it seems that Paracelsus anticipated the modern discovery of the 'potency of matter' three hundred years ago" (P. Limbus Major." within. of the second and other Stanzas. and indescribable power. which is only germinally contained in it.which makes the translator.http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. Iliados. F.
[[Vol.the ancestor of the just-born Protyle.or primordial Protomateria that evolved out of itself the Kosmos. "All things and all elementary substances were contained in it in potentia but not in actu" -.and Microcosm (or the Universe and our Globe)** by Aditi-Prakriti.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. then. and. According to this great Rosicrucian: "Mysterium is everything out of which something may be developed. It is the Chaos . incomprehensible. later on. Hartmann. came into existence. is simply our old friend "Father-Mother. following the Jewish and one or two Neo-Platonists. It is the universal matrix of Kosmos.htm
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. etc. with the difference. Page]] 283 PARACELSUS ANTICIPATED TYNDALL. however. as follows. out of which the Macrocosm. but also as vital matter of which the substance of living beings consists.
described in Book II. and man the outcome of the two. 1. there is no need to say more of it here. or Primordial Matter. A seed is the 'Mysterium' of a plant.
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The great Limbus is the seed out of which all beings have come. before it appeared in Space. the Spiritual and the physical nature. For we find it explained in Paracelsus that "the Magnus Limbus is the nursery out of which all creatures have grown. an egg that of a living bird.htm (12 von 26) [06. . According to the Hermetico-Kabalistic philosophy of Paracelsus. it is Yliaster -. introduced by Mr.05.theosociety.

. another old friend. Spirit is living.htm
being that reproduces its form..org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. did not take place in a material mode.
[[Vol.theosociety. All production took place in consequence of separation. spiritual nature. combinations -. "From Pradhana (primordial substance) presided over by Kshetrajna (embodied Spirit?) proceeds the evolution of those qualities.. The elements too. and have souls... from the scriptures of India and Egypt. "is identical with the one that has revolutionized modern thought. . ii. were identical.05. likewise all beings were born from the elements. whose birth. matter. not even complex. by our late lamented friend. "As Yliaster dissolved. Water. and individualising power (Fohat.just as fire may come out of a pebble. although there is originally no fire in the pebble. and Life and Spirit (Prakriti Purusha) (?) produce all things. Hinduism and Hermetism. and consist of elementary substances out of which other forms may come into existence. . .g. differentiating. nor a tree in the seed. in the same sense as a son has an organization similar to that of his father.. Ares. Book II.htm (13 von 26) [06. The elements as the mothers of all creatures are of an invisible." ("This doctrine. Dr. after having been put into new shape and elaborated by Darwin. or by simple separation. and man.." but by spiritual and dynamical. . preached 300 years ago. proceeds
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* The Eastern Occultist says -. para. bearing the characteristics of their parents. iii. and that the basic ideas upon spirit.. From the great Principle Mahat (Universal Intellect. however. but they are essentially one and not two.. But as from the seed grow the roots with their fibres. Substance. and that has itself been produced by the 'great. because all the activity of matter in every form is only an effluvium of the same fount..theosociety. and lastly the flowers and seeds. .. ." (Philosophia ad Athenienses.
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. Air and Earth.http://www. Thus it may be shown that all the fundamental truths of nature were universal in antiquity.* They all spring from the "Mysterium Magnum. Page]] 285 HERMES CHRISTIANIZED. It was still more elaborated by Kapila in the Sankhya philosophy") . ." (See Comment..) .. 1. .e. mechanical mixture as opposed to chemical combination -.) Compare this with Vishnu Purana. or upon God. the identity of the two is easily recognisable. began to act. the translator has
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. Anna Kingsford." remarks the translator."are guided and informed by the Spiritual Beings" the Workmen in the invisible worlds and behind the veil of Occult nature. or nature in Abscondito. and Life is Spirit. . This becomes apparent to one who reads the latest translation and rendering of the "Hermetic Fragments" just mentioned. the dividing. the elements of Fire. and the universe. or a tree out of a seed. Disfigured and tortured as these have been in their passage through Sectarian Greek and Christian hands. or mind).). Taking the two most ancient religious philosophies on the globe. and after that the stalk with its branches and leaves.' The latter possesses all the qualifications of the great one. have each one its own Yliaster.

05." was nevertheless written by a philosopher. v. nevertheless." (Fragments of the writings of Hermes to Ammon. says Hermes. Kingsford's "The Virgin of the World"): "I adjure thee. to which we take exception. etc.) This is contradicted by the very same Trismegistos. and in accordance with modern scientific research (?). and all depends on Him (It) and is in Him (It). uttered in the beginning when the universal world was framed. but the cause that the Spirit is." however much distorted in some passages by Christian "smoothing. Heaven... be favourable." This just preceded by the following: "Thus the Ideal Light was before the Ideal Light. which shows us everywhere the Divine power operating through natural Forces.." (Divine Pymander.. all that nature comprises. nor any other essentials. while most of the so-called "hermetic Fragments" are the production of sectarian pagans with a tendency towards an anthropomorphic Supreme Being. put into motion the Soul and the World. Book IX. and which is all... united in such a manner that the whole is one. and that everything proceeds from Unity. one to the Hermetic "Supreme All.http://www. And she says:. that contains all. I adjure thee by the word.) "God is not a mind." the
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most ably and intuitionally seized the weak points and tried to remedy them by means of explanations and foot-notes. Part I. 64. not light."
[[Vol. In the manifold unity of universal life. are. not a spirit. 1. The creation of the visible world by the 'working gods' or Titans. be favourable. Says a Hermetic Fragment cited by Suidas (see Mrs..." "That Universal Being. and the luminous Intelligence of Intelligence was always. holy work of the great God. Voice of the Father. recognisable in all religious systems. the innumerable individualities distinguished by their variations. only Son of the Father who upholds all things.theosociety.theosociety. Out of whom is neither God nor Angels.* is a thoroughly Hermetic idea. Compare two invocations.
other to the "Supreme All" of the later Aryans.htm (14 von 26) [06.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.2003 03:31:33]
.) The above shows plainly that "Divine Pymander. who is made to say: "To speak of God is
http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. Yet both are the echo of the Esoteric philosophy and the Hindu Puranas. I adjure thee.

the preserver. even with that which is found in the same Hermetic treatise where it is said: "Reality is not upon the earth. if not far older. 1. my son. and this shows (a) that Hermes was a generic nom-de-plume used by a series of generations of mystics of every shade. . Tatios: Then the celestial bodies themselves are not real. as suggestive as is the first of an anthropomorphic Being. full of philosophical meaning underlying it. We must respect the feeling that dictated both. Vishnu. nor form. . Tatios: And what then is the primordial Reality? Trismeg. Purana. eternal Supreme Vishnu. my son.
http://www. cannot be apprehended by sense." (Physical Eclogues. and (b) that a great discernment has to be used before accepting a Fragment as esoteric teaching only because it is undeniably ancient. and many are the passages in the Hermetic Fragments that belong bodily to the Secret Doctrine.theosociety. . who is both subtile and corporeal. holy. of one universal nature. Page]] 287 ALONE THE ETERNAL IS REST. Florilegium of Stobaeus. Here it is Parasara..htm (15 von 26) [06. . . There is in them a certain falsity.. The real consists solely in itself and remains what it is. to Vishnu the cause of final emancipation. . I understand. . and who consists of the world. and calls upon Vishnu in his triple hypostasis. .. . that which it is impossible to define -.that is God. the mighty over all." (Vish. nor matter. That which is not made of matter. Nothing on earth is real. . Book L. but we cannot help finding it in full disharmony with its inner meaning.2003 03:31:33]
. who is the root of the world. the cause of the creation. That which has not any body nor appearance. which changes not nor is transmitted but which always is. Tatios.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. 0 Tatios. to him who is Hiranyagarbha. nor in any body. Man is transient.. .) This is a grand invocation. The leading thought is Occult. Hari. indiscreet and discreet.http://www. . "Glory to the unchangeable. there are only appearances.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. and Sankara (Brahma. the
[[Vol. but. He (man) is not real. therefore he is not real. for the profane masses. Which has neither colour nor form. and the destroyer of the world. the creator.htm
impossible. since they also vary? Trismegistos: That which is subject to birth and to change is not real..
end of the world.05.theosociety.) The contradiction between the two passages is evident. . the Indian Asclepios. the liberator (of his worshippers). existence." This is quite consistent with the Vedantic teaching. he is but appearance. to him whose essence is both single and manifold. the Aryan "Hermes" who instructs Maitreya. I understand. my father. seeing that they too are variable.: That which is one and alone. and it cannot be thereon.. to Vasudeva. and appearance is the supreme illusion. For corporeal cannot express the incorporeal. Let us now compare the above with a like invocation in the Hindu Scriptures -undoubtedly as old. . as man. and Siva). .

Genii and Daimones (in the original texts). and thence watch over human affairs. when it hides its head in the sand at its feet." Science denies the existence of such. and.htm
The latter teaches that the whole universe is ruled by intelligent and semi-intelligent Forces and Powers. but in Esoteric philosophy Mahat is the root of Chiti. The Occultists and Kabalists are thus the only rational expounders of the ancient traditions.htm (16 von 26) [06. and both are wrong in believing that they can circumscribe the whole within their own special and narrow barriers. A. The root of the name is Chiti. but makes an arbitrary division and refers to them as "Angels" and "Devils. the Buddhists call them). and even in the Oriental and Latin theological sense -." as lately compiled and glossed by Mrs. The following are a few:-[[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]
* The Hermetic philosophers called Theoi.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. its germ. some of which are those who have furnished man with his fourth and fifth Principles from their own essence.theosociety.in the Socratic sense. for -." as Hermes has it. "that by which the effects and consequences of actions and kinds of knowledge are selected for the use of the soul. The Daimones are -. the Chiti is a synonym of Mahat. have to be resorted to for comparison.the guardian spirits of the human race. they are called Chitkala.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. outside these. and ridicules the very idea. yet on the whole the characteristics of the genii* and gods are those of eastern teachings." or conscience the inner Voice in man. "those who dwell in the neighbourhood of the immortals. we may contrast them in the present case with the teachings of Esoteric philosophy.http://www.2003 03:31:33]
.T. since the public knows nothing of the Chaldean works which are translated into Arabic and preserved by some Sufi initiates. Chitkala (Kwan-yin. those Entities whom we call Devas (gods). and Chiti is a quality of Manas in conjunction with Buddhi. the first and divine intellect. and dogmatic denials on the other. as stated from the very beginning. 1. gods. Though not a few passages show a strong impression of some later Christian hand. or rather Hermetic Fragments.they can never do so. and thus both are right from
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their respective standpoints. and even Spiritualism show little more wisdom than the ostrich does. F. To quote for this purpose from any other would be useless. both belief and unbelief embrace but one small corner each of the infinite horizons of spiritual and physical manifestations. which have now culminated in dogmatic faith on the one hand. deny entirely any other kind or class of invisible beings.. With the Yogis. Dhyan Chohans. In Esoteric parlance. In this respect Science. Page]] 288 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Therefore the "Definitions of Asclepios. and others the Pitris so-called. Spiritualists believe in the Spirits of the Dead. For. Kingsford. some of which sayings are in remarkable agreement with the Esoteric Eastern doctrine. a quality that attracts to itself by spiritual affinity a Chitkala when it
http://www. feeling sure that there can be thus nothing beyond its own point of observation and the limited area occupied by its foolish head.05. This will be explained when we come to the production of the complete man. Christian Theology admits and even enforces belief in such.S. and by other names. Theology. while concerning other things there are passages which differ widely in our doctrines.

htm (17 von 26) [06.05. As its substance is of a different kind from that known on earth. *** The teaching is all given from our plane of consciousness. or lowest state of the seventh. Moreover. Nor are any of these any more than the REFLECTIONS of their PRIMARIES which are concealed from the gaze of all but the Dhyan Chohans. the worlds already formed or forming. therefore they have named it in their ignorance 'God-Spirit. in its visible reflection.. SURYA (the Sun). the highest state of the Universal PRESENCE. each of its states or principles is graduated into seven degrees of density. All the Central physical or objective Suns are in their substance the lowest state of the first Principle of the BREATH.) "The Initial Existence in the first twilight of the Maha-Manwantara (after the MAHAPRALAYA that follows every age of Brahma) is a CONSCIOUS SPIRITUAL QUALITY. the first manifested Breath of the ever Unmanifested SAT (Beness). It cannot be called so by men in their WAKING STATE. It is on the SEVENTH PLANE.. ** The ultimate quiescent state: the Nirvana condition of the seventh Principle.) "It is Substance to OUR spiritual sight. 1. those in LAYA resting meanwhile in its bosom.* hitherto secret:-(xvii.*** (xviii. whose Corporeal substance belongs to the fifth division of the seventh Principle of the Mother substance.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. believe in their illusion and ignorance that it is empty space.. and in its SEVENTH STATE in our planetary world.
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.http://www.' (xix. the inhabitants of the latter. Page]] 289 A FEW OCCULT APHORISMS.. There is not one finger's breath (ANGULA) of void Space in the whole Boundless (Universe). in its OBJECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY. the pure of the pure. and is. like the film from a Divine Breath to the gaze of the entranced seer.. This is why it is said that Chiti is a voice acquiring mystic life and becoming Kwan-Yin.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.. (xx.
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* This (teaching) does not refer to Prakriti-Purusha beyond the boundaries of our small universe. Outside the latter it is to be found in its pristine purity only between (the solar systems or) the Stars of the Universe.
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http://www. In the manifested WORLDS (solar systems) it is. It spreads as it issues from LAYA** throughout infinity as a colourless spiritual fluid. exhibits the first.) "It exists everywhere and forms the first UPADHI (foundation) on which our World (solar system) is built.theosociety.

the Initial existence -. the sevenfold Sun and distinct from it.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13." the primeval really homogeneous matter.. . 1. as the whole physical universe gravitates towards ITS manifested centre -cosmically. . and is at once. neither ever rises nor sets. or. is what some people call Vishnu (see foot-note below).. The energy from which they spring into conscious existence in every Sun. (xxv. and the focus within which they again meet in their SEVENTH ESSENCE every eleventh year.) "The former -. Self-born from the inherent power in the matrix of Mother substance. *** "In the same manner as a man approaches a mirror placed upon a stand." says Vishnu Purana (Book II.*** as he is. . It is they who send the Seven Principal Forces. ** "Vishnu in the form of the Solar active energy..theosociety.. he is distinct from them. again. that. Chap. four degrees higher than the solar reflected substance..) "The real substance of the concealed (Sun) is a nucleus of Mother substance. called rays. indeed.. .. which is the Breath of the ABSOLUTENESS. as indeed he has . (xxvii. as also that he has SEVEN RAYS. It is the Kernel from which proceed to spread on their cyclic journeys all the Powers that set in action the atoms in their functional duties.05.* It is the heart and the matrix of all the living and existing Forces in our solar universe.2003 03:31:33]
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[[Vol.theosociety.) "The latter must never be mentioned in words or speech LEST IT SHOULD TAKE AWAY SOME OF OUR SPIRITUAL ENERGIES THAT ASPIRE towards ITS state. As there are seven Dhatu (principal substances in the human body) so there are seven Forces in Man and in all Nature.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. (xxi. We call it the One manifested life -.http://www.
therefore.. "It is on account of his septenary nature that the Sun is spoken of by the ancients as one who is driven by seven horses equal to the metres of the Vedas.) "The Seven Beings in the Sun are the Seven Holy Ones. (xxiii). so the energy or reflection of Vishnu (the Sun) is never disjoined but remains in the Sun as in a mirror that is there stationed" ("Vishnu Purana"). though he is identified with the SEVEN "Gaina" (classes of being) in his orb. .htm (18 von 26) [06. beholds in it his own image. laugh at him** as if he had said that the sun moves really onward on his diurnal path . 1 1).which may be called while in
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* Or the "dream of Science. . gravitating ever onward unto IT spiritually. which at the beginning of Pralaya will centre into seven new Suns for the next Manvantara..itself a reflection of the Absolute. (xxvi. He who tells thee he has seen the sun. Page]] 290 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. which no mortal can make objective in this Race or Round either.
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It resides in the Fire provoked out of its latent into active being. . In a hierarchy. with their septenary sub-divisions. It is its life principle and vital power. erroneously. It manifests in seven states. it regulates the motion
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* In "Vishnu" and other Puranas. (xxix." The breath of her first principle is his spirit (Atma). it gives all that it bestows on all the rest of the manifested units in nature. Each of his seven principles is an heir in full to. (e) It is the guiding Force in the Cosmic and terrestrial elements.H. are the FORTY-NINE Fires* mentioned in sacred books . 1. . Page]] 292 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. We call it. but develops. and sets the air in motion. its characteristics and special idiosyncrasies . the spark that lies latent in it. when** having consolidated itself in its LAST principle as GROSS MATTER. (c) In every animal it does the same. the seventh emanation of her last principle is: -(a) In the mineral. Her second principle is BUDDHI (soul).org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.theosociety. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. the reflection of all its FORTY-NINE FIRES in him. which. the seventh. . . -. furthermore. or order of being. . as explained. its instinct and qualities. or the root and sapling. . Page]] 291 OCCULT APHORISMS.htm
[[Vol. a FILM for creative or formative Purposes. .http://www. It whirls in the breeze. which element participates in one of its principles also. . with the seventh emanation of the last." "Going down cyclically into matter when she meets 'heavenly man. it proceeds down cyclically. shooting them out as the latter grows and develops.] -.
this state of being the ONE LIFE.' "
[[Vol. . . is. (b) In the plant it is that vital and intelligent Force which informs the seed and develops it into the blade of grass.according to his organic capacities.theosociety. and a partaker of. Separating itself into its primary seven states. 1. and (b) with the MIND that moves it [which is the human soul. it revolves around itself and informs. 'Mother' (prima MATERIA). B. (d) To man.) "The first is the . for the whole of the seven subdivisions of the * * * principle reside in the terrestrial Fire. ** See the Hermetic "Nature. It is the germ which becomes the UPADHI of the seven principles of the thing it resides in.05. . Proceeding cyclically.2003 03:31:33]
. the first and the lowest element (the Serpent biting its own tail). blows with the hurricane. and is called to its evanescent being by the POSITIVE awakening the NEGATIVE (and so forth) .htm (19 von 26) [06. the seven principles of the "great Mother. P.
http://www. The third furnishes him with (a) the brain stuff on the physical plane. . .

(b) Its power in recalling past ideas (memory) and raising future expectation. . to remind the reader of what Mr. (2.theosociety. in this connection. the One Existence is Heaven and the Earth. and is as present in the glow-worm. It is in the Sun.) JNANASAKTI.) PARASAKTI.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. and which is referred to whenever such expressions are used from the mystic point of view. . the Action and the Thought. (c) Its power as exhibited in what are called by modern psychologists "the laws of association." Thus he says: "Kanya (the sixth sign of the Zodiac. (b) Psychometry. . The sign .htm
of the water. or Virgo) means a Virgin.(a) Clairvoyance. its three lower ones breed the lives of the Elements (Elementals). Subba Row said of the Forces -. . .mystically defined.
[[Vol. (f) Its four higher principles contain the germ that develops into the Cosmic Gods. Therefore. of real Wisdom or Knowledge. The power of intellect.theosociety. 1. See "Five Years of Theosophy" and "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.) ITCHASAKTI -. (3. These Sakti stand as follows: (1.htm (20 von 26) [06.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. and indicates that there are six primary forces in Nature (synthesized by the Seventh)" . of the waves. and thus generate the notion or idea of an external object. Page]] 293 THE SEVEN POWERS.
tion is the generation of certain nerve currents which set in motion such muscles as are required for the
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. and thus generating the notion of self or individuality. and represents Sakti or Mahamaya." It may be interesting. attracts and repels the waves* according to fixed laws of which its seventh principle is the informing soul. Not an atom can escape it. . Its most ordinary manifesta[[Footnote(s) -------------------------------------------------]]
* The writers of the above knew perfectly well the physical cause of the tides. the ancient Sages have wisely called it the manifested God in Nature. (d) Its power in connecting our ideas together by the mysterious link of memory.the power of the Will. . It means and includes the powers of light and heat. . (a) The power of the mind in interpreting our sensations. the Root and the flower. It is the informing Spirit of the whole Cosmic solar body that is meant here. It has two aspects: The following are some of its manifestations when placed under the influence or control of material conditions. some of its manifestations when liberated from the bonds of matter are -. (g) In our Solar world.05.

) KRIYASAKTI. (5. speech or music.theosociety.. (4. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally if one's attention is deeply concentrated upon it. . tempests. and even as the Ideal World which environs the sensible world fills this last with the plenitude and universal variety of
http://www.. the "thrice great":-"The creation of Life by the Sun is as continuous as his light. . The force or power of letters.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. Electricity and magnetism are but manifestations of it.theosociety. The power or Force which moves in a curved path. Similarly an intense volition will be followed by the desired result. The power of the ineffable name is the crown of this Sakti. These dwell in the neighbourhood of the Immortals. This is the power which brings about that "continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations" which is the essence of life according to Herbert Spencer. transitions of fire and earthquakes. though not covering the tenth part of what might be said. .) KUNDALINI SAKTI. who personify the Fifth Principle of Cosmic Nature. the light of the LOGOS). .. The Mantra Shastra has for its subject-matter this force in all its manifestations. like an army of Satellites. nothing arrests or limits it. punar janman (re-birth) in the doctrines of the ancient Hindu philosophers. Around him.
But let us compare with the commentary just cited the words of Hermes. The six forces are in their unity represented by the "Daiviprakriti" (the Seventh. and thence watch over human things.. or of the "Mother" in its Mystical Sense. . Modern Science has but partly investigated the first. likewise by famines and wars. for the punishment of impiety.05. It is the sun who preserves and nourishes all creatures. The above is quoted to show the real Hindu ideas on the same.htm (21 von 26) [06..htm
accomplishment of the desired object. of which entity it is an emanation. 1.http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. and that "continuous adjustment of external relations to internal relations" which is the basis of transmigration of souls.2003 03:31:33]
. This force includes the two great forces of attraction and repulsion. but is altogether in the dark as regards the remaining powers. second and fifth of the forces above named.. For one. The influence of melody is one of its ordinary manifestations. are innumerable choirs of genii..) MANTRIKA-SAKTI. They fulfil the will of the gods (Karma) by means of storms. It is the Universal lifePrinciple manifesting everywhere in nature. A Yogi generally performs his wonders by means of Itchasakti and Kriyasakti. the six names of the Six Forces mentioned are those of the six Hierarchies of Dhyan Chohans synthesized by their Primary. perceptible. A Yogi must thoroughly subjugate this power before he can attain Moksham. Page]] 294 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. the seventh. (6..
[[Vol.* . The enumeration alone of the yogi Powers would require ten volumes. It is all esoteric. Each of these Forces has a living Conscious Entity at its head. The mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external.

. ** And "Gods" or Dhyanis. gnomic element. especially the Comments on Stanza IV." .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. Air. to whom they cleave. and whose operations they affect. For instance. But the reasonable part of the Soul is not subject to the genii. our veins..theosociety.. but revolving in circles.. Those who are thus illumined are few in number. he is taken in charge by the genii (Elementals) who preside over births.htm (22 von 26) [06. It is still as orthodox in its broad outlines and features among pagans and Christians alike..." says Paracelsus (De Fundamento Sapientiae). too..* who enlightens it with a sunny ray. Earth and Ether -. and the Commentaries thereupon. . accomplishes everywhere the birth and development of creatures.. represents that which was a universal belief common to all nations till about a century or so back. good and evil by nature. they are present in our nerves. For whether one calls the genii of Hermes and his "Gods. save a few sectarian points. and therefore did not say all.
[[Vol. "the Lipika and the four Maharajas. our marrow. **** Cyclic progress in development.. the gnomes will lead him towards assimilating metals -.money and wealth.. or rather the choirs. All these Genii preside over mundane affairs. if man has a preponderance of the Earthly. . Paracelsus was cautious.. for there are many and diverse. The genii have then the control of mundane things and our bodies serve them as instruments. enfolding all in his light. "Animal man is the son of the animal elements out of which his Soul (life) was born. not only the genii or "guided Forces.. That element which predominates in a certain constitution will be the ruling element throughout life. and IV.htm
forms. and wanted the Bible to agree with what he said.) They change perpetually.. and so on.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13.** But all other men. . it is designed
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* See Stanzas III. "Under his orders is the choir of Genii. 1.**** They permeate by the body two parts of the Soul. if one excepts a handful of materialists and men of Science.. ." "Powers of Darkness" and "Angels. our arteries.*** and who are classed beneath the astral powers (Superhuman astral Spirits. . are directed by genii. and from them the genii abstain: for neither genii nor Gods have any power in the presence of a single ray of God." as in
http://www..the ELEMENTALS which belong respectively to these Elements feel attracted to man by reason of their co-essence. and their number corresponds to that of the stars.. Every star has its genii." the agents of Karma. for operation is the essence of the genii. at the moment when each of us receives life and being. . Water. or rather by their operation.http://www.. Page]] 295 UNIVERSAL ILLUSION. that it may receive from each the impress of his own energy. both soul and body." *** The meaning of this is that as man is composed of all the Great Elements: Fire.. and animals are the mirrors of man. and our very brain-substance ..
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..** they shake and overthrow the constitution of States and of individuals. not always identically. so also the Sun.

and is so regarded by his neighbours. a highly Spiritual Dhyan Chohan in him. whose consciousness is on that plane. calls the visions of an insane brother -.ILLUSION. from a scientific point of view.
the experience of any plane is an actuality for the percipient being. as much and even more than from the occult aspect of the esoteric knowledge. Light. besides the presence of his own seventh Principle. stands as the one and only reality -. or "Spirits of the Dead.05. and for these Vital Force. But
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. where is that madman for whom the hideous shadows in his deranged mind." as in Spiritualism or. and are said to exist merely as "modes of motion. we protest against the doctrine as being unphilosophical. be misunderstood in the sense into which the great philosophical doctrine of the Vedantists has been lately perverted by Western schools. from this qualification alone. It is the high Initiates and Adepts who are meant here by those men "few in number.htm
the Greek and Latin Churches. as erroneously believed by some. though the said experience.illusions and fancies likewise. as actual and as real as the things which his physician or keeper may see? Everything is relative in this Universe. self-contradictory. as they are still called in India and Mussulman countries -. The Theosophists. 1. Shaitan or Djin.theosociety. however. and simply absurd." the anthropomorphic fiction.http://www. ** Now. again. everything is an illusion. most undeniably. All that which is.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13." but one Universal unrelated and unconditioned Deity.
[[Vol.whose hallucinations make the victim either happy or supremely wretched. only because these views are opposed to Theosophy. which.htm (23 von 26) [06. The first rule of our Society is to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. but against physicists and materialists that Esoteric teachings have to fight." "sensations and affections of matter. everything extraneous to this Absolute. But it is not against metaphysicians. such a god is finite and imperfect. even to the objectively pulling force of magnetism.they are all one and the same thing -. But this is only so from the purely metaphysical view. emanates from the ABSOLUTE. the generative and causative Element. But when its high priests resolve consciousness into a secretion from the grey matter of the brain. must be an illusion. what "god" is meant here? Not God "the Father.hence. and everything else in nature into a mode of motion.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. Bhoots and Devas. therefore. Besides. Let not this. Sound. are not. are the first to recognize the intrinsic value of science. But." And it is precisely those men who believe in "gods" and know no "God. nor the Theosophists. Electricity. have no objective being. A man who regards himself as mentally sane. reject." Neither the Occultists generally.

"* Thus.05. Then. were one to believe this preposterous proposition." as it has several others. one might take it to be one with vacuity" (p. whereas Scandinavians and Norwegians had actually reached and settled in that very old "New World" several centuries before. thus unconsciously helping Occultism. as a Columbus was born to re-discover. no doubt. and then only would these truths have a chance of becoming scientific! But TRUTH. now re-baptised Hypnotism. however distasteful to the generally blind majorities.judging from past experience -. upon the last meal of the namer. nolens volens.http://www. The relations [[fn continued]]
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it. space. smell. who defines the latter as one of the principles of Akasa only. father the thing and reject its name. it is as certainly. it is not made up of parts." the latter is confused with the hypothetical Ether of Science. and to force the Old World to believe in Antipodal countries. taste. since. Isvara. Science will have to accept the old "Superstition. and it is not the Occultists who will protest against its adoption by Science under whatever new name.theosociety.its learned professors will. Page]] 297 NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. until absolutely forced on the notice and acceptance of Scientists." but rather creative potency and soul -. so will there be born scientists who will discover the marvels now claimed by Occultists to exist in the regions of Ether. "Cerebration is generically the same as chylification. Its speciality. together with its primary. This is a great mistake. At any rate Akasa is sure to produce vacuity in the brain of a materialist. as in the case of MESMERISM and Magnetism.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. according to the Founder of the new Hylo-Idealistic Scheme. consists in its being the material cause of sound. the whole body of Materialists and scoffers notwithstanding. has always had her champions. will remain non-existent to the materialists of our age. "In dimension it is infinite. in all probability. "A characteristic of Akasa will serve to show how inadequately it is represented by Ether. And having been once forced to accept it -. Nevertheless. in the same way as America was a non-existent myth for Europeans during the early part of the mediaeval ages. ("The Lord. the new name of the archaic thing would have to take its chance." the new name for the older "automatic physical processes among the nerve fibrils of the (Scientific) brain" of Moleschott.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. the cause of sound. on the "modes of motion. But. 1. and colour.
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.) It is vacuity. as also. not a material cause by any means.* These secrets. especially for Rationalists.anima mundi). many an
http://www. and tangibility do not appertain to it. in its turn. ready to die for her. and both are referred to by some theosophists as synonymous with Akasa. though Akasa is not that Ether of Science." writes the author of Rational Refutations. as compared therewith. Except for its being so. not even the Ether of the Occultist. only a physical and spiritual.

Occult Sciences will have the finger of scorn pointed at them from every street corner. Buckle.P. The hour has now struck to ascertain whether the
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. This may be a difficult riddle to the profane.theosociety."
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[[fn back]] of Ether to Akasa may be defined by applying to both Akasa and Ether the words said of the god in the Vedas. 1887. and even the dullest intellect wonders how they could ever have been denied. Article "Phreno-Kosmo-Biology. According to the ordinary course of affairs. "So himself was indeed (his own) son.
How profoundly true are the words of H. then. I. and to produce a religion or a philosophy by which important effects are eventually brought about. Nitrogen has added considerably to chemical knowledge. and then there comes a period when these very truths are looked upon as commonplace facts.htm (25 von 26) [06. and everyone will seek to ridicule and crush them in the name. The Theosophists and Occultists stand arraigned by public opinion. . 1. a few generations pass away. the true and mutual positions of the defendant and plaintiff.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-1-13. But if we look into history we shall clearly see that. 256). H. however. to be finally appropriated by its ex-traducers without the least acknowledgment or thanks.theosociety. Such will be the retrospect furnished to the advanced thinkers of the Sixth Root Race of the history of the acceptance of Esoteric Philosophy -. and it must be shown how far their achievements and discoveries in the realm of natural laws are opposed. If either a religion or a philosophy is too much in advance of a nation it can do no present service but must bide its time* until the minds of men are ripe for its reception. January 9th. every creed has had its martyrs. although the origin of a new opinion may be thus due to a single man. ." It is barely possible that the minds of the present generations are not quite ripe for the reception of Occult truths.) there appear from time to time great thinkers. and for the greater glory.05.htm
Occult truth will be tabooed.
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as also Gravitation and the Nebular theories. . The Natures of Ether and of other Elements must be discussed: thus contrasting scientific with other Occult teachings. lest thou shouldst think aloud. who bring to light any of these old. and thy heart. for such is the object of our alliance. conceit and prejudice.
walls of the modern Jericho are so impregnable that no blast of the Occult trumpet is ever likely to make them crumble. . Such has been the case ever since man became an animal. the wise Commandments in the Esoteric Catechism. That this proves in every case moral death to the revealers. awakening from its age-long sleep. is as certain as that it gives LIFE and REGENERATION to those who are fit to profit even by the little that is now revealed to them. But old and time-honoured errors -. a corner of the Veil of Isis had to be lifted. and the constitution of the Solar orb must be carefully examined.http://www. happens to knock for admission.) Some fifteen years ago. compress thy brain lest something should escape from it and fall outside. and now another and a larger rent is made. lest thou shouldst speak of this (the mystery). ready to strangle every truth.htm
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.) And again: -. Page]] 299 MEN WELCOME ERROR. (Vide Addendum. they are constantly on the watch.) A few years later. Book of Creation. Marshalled by blind conservatism. but this law itself is often defied by human stubbornness. after the Kabalists.such as become with every day more glaring and self-evident -stand arrayed in battle-order now. AND CRUCIFY THE TRUTH.theosociety.

) § I. 379 IX.DEUS LUNUS .theosociety. She is one of those who feel convinced that no mythological story. -.PART II.. nay..DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS . at any time. had no meaning. 386 X.. 403 XI. -. 424 XIII. when "Isis Unveiled" was written. Such superficial thinkers were admirably disposed of by Mr. Page 303]]
BOOK I. -. expressed openly so far back as 1875. no traditional event in the folk-lore of a people has ever been. but that every one of such narratives has an actual. 445 XIV.THEOGONY OF THE CREATIVE GODS . the poet and Egyptologist. save an accidental extrinsic one. -. however great their reputation... historical lining to it.
(SECRET DOCTRINE. -." His pointed criticism is worthy of reproduction in this part of this work. Gerald Massey. -.. and believe that all mythologies sprung from and are built upon solar myths. of whatsoever nation. -. some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like. to him who has eyes for it. THE study of the hidden meaning in every religious and profane legend. In this the writer disagrees with those symbologists.2003 03:31:35]
. SYMBOLISM AND IDEOGRAPHS. 411 XII. from the platform of the Royal Institution. 460 XV..
"A symbol is ever.htm (2 von 9) [06..TREE AND SERPENT AND CROCODILE WORSHIP .. who find in every myth nothing save additional proofs of the superstitious bent of mind of the ancients. the highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under the cross itself.pre-eminently the traditions of the East -.. -. pure fiction.. "For thirty years past Professor Max Muller has been teaching in his books and lectures. -.ON KWAN-SHI YIN AND KWAN-YIN .has occupied the greater portion of the present writer's life. 470
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VIII. as it echoes so well our own feelings. large or small -. in the Times and various magazines." CARLYLE.THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF THE ANCIENTS . 1.05. the
http://www.theosociety.. Through all there glimmers something of a divine idea.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01.http://www..THE LOTUS AS A UNIVERSAL SYMBOL . in a lecture on "Luniolatry..org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01... Ancient and Modern.

* Mythology is the repository of man's most ancient science. and talking ingeniously concerning smoke. it is destined to be the death of those false theologies to which it has unwittingly given birth. It was founded on natural facts. they were not ignorant enough to suppose that the moon was a cat. and when its mode of expression by sign-language is thoroughly understood. . they were neither forgeries nor fictions.05. and will one day be acknowledged. . The insanity lies in mistaking it for human history or Divine Revelation. the sky overhead becoming like the dome of dreamland. cloud. nothing irrational in it. when the Egyptians portrayed the moon as a Cat. projecting his own shadow on a mental mist.** In modern phraseology a statement is sometimes said to be mythical in proportion to its being untrue. Professor Max Muller. or. Page]] 304 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. and other propounders of the Solar Mythos. at least. 'we know that mythology is the disease which springs up at a peculiar stage of human culture. which were directly and constantly contradicted by his own daily experience. scribbled over with the imagery of aboriginal nightmares! They conceive the early man in their own likeness. and that her eyes became full-orbed. The moon
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[[Vol. For example. There is nothing insane. . and grew most luminous by night.theosociety. Gubernatis. in his Hibbert lectures. My reply is. and such explanations are still accepted by the British public. and his chair at Oxford. as Fontenelle has it.' They have misrepresented primitive or archaic man as having been idiotically misled from the first by an active but untutored imagination into believing all sorts of fallacies. have portrayed the primitive myth-maker for us as a sort of Germanised-Hindu metaphysician. echoing Max Muller. The origin and meaning of mythology have been missed altogether by these solarites and weather-mongers! Mythology was a primitive mode of thinking the early thought. or of anything else except his own brain. Cox. It remains to be said.htm
pulpit of Westminster Abbey. but the ancient mythology was not a system or mode of falsifying in that sense. .http://www.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. 1. that these accepted teachers have been no nearer to the beginnings of mythology and language than Burns' poet Willie had been near to Pegasus. They had observed the simple fact that the cat saw in the dark. .htm (3 von 9) [06.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. . when considered in the light of evolution. that mythology is a disease of language. and is still verifiable in phenomena.' Such is the shallow explanation of the non-evolutionists. and what concerns us chiefly is this -.theosociety. nor did their wandering fancies see any likeness in the moon to a cat. or. and that the ancient symbolism was a result of something like a primitive aberration.when truly interpreted once more. Its fables were the means of conveying facts. "'We know. a fool of fancy in the midst of those grim realities that were grinding his experience into him. nor was a cat-myth any mere expansion of verbal metaphor.2003 03:31:35]
. like the grinding icebergs making their imprints upon the rocks submerged beneath the sea.' says Renouf. 'subject to beholding things that are not there. nor had they any intention of making puzzles or riddles. and look upon him as perversely prone to self-mystification. 'Tis but a dream of the metaphysical theorist that mythology was a disease of language.

from mau. is the fact that every symbol in papyrus or olla is a
http://www. which denotes the seer. . The moon (vide § VII. ** When the "false theologies" disappear. Symbology must be studied from every one of its aspects. because it reflected the solar light.ancient Hindoos. . a living pictograph of the lunar orb. The able lectures of Mr. no Indian tolla. with her paw holding down and bruising the head of the serpent of darkness." This is a very correct exposition of the lunar-mythos from its astronomical aspect. Not so with regard to "human history." . and especially German. are concealed under them.theosociety. and the cat was its equivalent on the earth. and even the pre-Homeric Hellenes.seem to remain blind. have brought every Occultist and most unprejudiced persons to see that without the help of symbology (with its seven departments. to see. of Book I. and is more directly concerned with all the mysteries of our globe than is even Venus-Lucifer.' But this imagining is all modern.htm (4 von 9) [06. In the form of the goddess Pasht. for each nation had its own peculiar methods of expression. Page]] 305 EMBLEM AND SYMBOL DIFFER. . as shown in Stanza VI. we agree.. the cat keeps watch for the sun. The untiring researches of Western. Deus Lunus) is intimately related to the Earth. then true prehistoric realities will be found. And so it followed that the sun which saw down in the under-world at night could also be called the cat. . the occult sister and alter-ego of the Earth. and so the familiar cat was adopted as a representative. of which the moderns know nothing) no ancient Scripture can ever be correctly understood. This every scholar now knows. In short. no Assyrian tile. no Egyptian papyrus. contained especially in the mythology of the Aryans -. Selenography.05. For there is "history" in most of the allegories and "myths" of India.
cat in Egyptian is mau. 1. is the least esoteric of the divisions of lunar Symbology. as it was.http://www. should be read and accepted literally. .if one is permitted to coin a new word -. The name of the
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. or Hebrew scroll. however. during the last and the present centuries. It is the Mullerite stock in trade. because it also saw in the dark. The moon as cat was the eye of the sun. and because the eye gives back image in its mirror. One writer on mythology asserts that the Egyptians 'imagined a great cat behind the sun. one must become proficient in more than its astronomical meaning. called his eternal enemy.htm
was the seer by night in heaven. which is the pupil of the cat's eye.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. . and events. real actual events.whether Aryanists or Egyptologists -. .
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each illustrating such a special idea. "Why should they. and unfolding an idea in panoramic views. "Why do not the adepts reveal that which they know?" To this." The above enumerated societies are all comparatively modern. or solar) of several countries. but also among the few profane interested in the subject. and even to that only partially. one might answer. convey a whole body of doctrine to those who have been trained to recognise them. To put it still plainer. one after the other. then.05. has shown in his Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia. Page]] 306 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. This is instanced in the just quoted interpretation of the moon symbolized by the cat -." which have now become. which may be said rather to illustrate some single special idea. Thus the Puranas are written emblems. none dating back earlier than the middle ages. 1. such as the Pythagorean Society. Many of these emblems it is not proper to divulge to the general eye. Have you so much as accepted or believed in the A B C of the Occult philosophy contained in the Theosophist. even as an hypothesis. As the same authority shows: -"All esoteric Societies have made use of emblems and symbols. The magical sigillae. But he is ever ready to impart to the earnest student the secret of the ancient thought in anything that regards history concealed under mythological symbolism. The latter is "a concrete visible
[[Vol. since one knows beforehand that no man of science will accept.
picture or sign representing principles. the Hermetic Brethren of Egypt. let alone as a theory or axiom. each of whose facets not merely bears several interpretations. not only among theosophists. "Esoteric Buddhism. there is a great difference between emblem and symbol. being founded on certain principles of numbers. that may produce a hurtful result as well as a beneficent one.htm (5 von 9) [06. that the students of the oldest Archaic School should be careful not to divulge secrets of far more importance to humanity (in the sense of being dangerous in the hands of the latter) than any of the so-called "Masonic Secrets. form collectively an esoteric emblem. An adept must refuse to impart the conditions and means that lead to a correlation of elements. and although monstrous or ridiculous in the eyes of the uninstructed. the evolution of the races and geognosy.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. as the French say. the Rosicrucians. the symbols (say lunar. yet it is the crying complaint of to-day. The former "comprises a larger series of thoughts than a symbol." and other works and periodicals? Has not even the little
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many-faced diamond. an emblem is usually a series of graphic pictures viewed and explained allegorically. the late Mr. or the Bible. those of "Polichinelle!" But this restriction can apply only to the psychological or rather psycho-physiological and Cosmical significance of symbol and emblem. or series of ideas.http://www. As a learned Mason and Theosophist. the facts imparted.theosociety. and the Freemasons. So are the Mosaic and Christian Testaments. How much more proper. the Eleusinian.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. and thus to furnish a few more land-marks towards a retrospective view of the past. but relates likewise to several sciences." Hence. whether psychic or physical.2003 03:31:35]
. as containing useful information with regard to the origin of man. or a series of principles. partake of this character. and a very minute difference may make the emblem or symbol differ widely in its meaning. recognizable by those who have received certain instructions" (initiates). Kenneth Mackenzie. and all other exoteric Scriptures. the moon bearing many other meanings besides this with other nations.an example of sidero-terrestrial imagery.

been ridiculed and derided. so an historical. or an alphabet. it was never expressed in so many words. the evolution of the globe and
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the races. Thus was created in time the Chinese Alphabet. meeting with a Chinaman who has never heard the language of the former. drawn out of his own mind and examined later by his master.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. a mass of facts is given in the present work. All the thoughts and emotions. of life-realities. and because such or another vibration in the air is sure to awaken corresponding powers. every word has its corresponding symbol conveying the word needed in a pictorial form. the hieratic symbols were fixed upon in old Egypt. and every student had to record them in corresponding symbols. real event was deduced -. have been too often darkened by one or another preconception. we say. The religious and esoteric history of every nation was embedded in symbols. The language possesses many thousands of such symbol letters. among our Aryanists and Egyptologists. that moral being an actual truth and fact in human life. and the rib of Adam and the apple on the other? Notwithstanding such an unenviable prospect. found their pictorial expression in allegory and parable.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01.htm (6 von 9) [06. a Japanese who does not understand one word of Chinese. by the modern "sages.theosociety.* and which is only a little less ancient than the Egyptian alphabet of Thoth. The proofs brought forward in corroboration of the old teachings are scattered widely throughout the old scriptures of ancient civilizations. 1. still oftener. or any real events in so many unmistakable words.by those versed in the hieratic sciences -from certain emblems and symbols recorded in the ancient archives of the temples. as. and facts.theosociety. will communicate in writing with him. No student was ever allowed to recite historical. are as fully treated here as the writer is able to treat them.05.2003 03:31:35]
. human and animal.
http://www. of the early races. that all such events were recorded symbolically. lest the powers connected with the event should be once more attracted." Because sound and rhythm are closely related to the four Elements of the Ancients. before that. the alphabet of which may be read in any language. and they will understand each other perfectly -. or logograms. as a moral was ever drawn from a parable. for letters proper. Yet even a parable is a spoken symbol: a fiction or a fable. events.because the writing is symbolical. and the old classics are full of them. The Puranas.htm
which was given. and made to face the "animal" and "ape theory" of Huxley -. And. The reason for this is. union with which produces good or bad results. Why? Because the spoken word has a potency unknown to. In the Chinese language. but no one has ever gone to the trouble of collecting and collating together those facts. unsuspected and disbelieved in. Page]] 307 MAGIC POTENCY OF SOUND. all the learning and knowledge. the most acute minds. before they were finally accepted. And now the origin of man. revealed and acquired. an allegorical representation. and that the best scholars.Haeckel.http://www. do not exist in the Chinese language any more than they did in the Egyptian till a far later period. on one hand. by one-sided views of the secret meaning. each meaning a whole word. the Zendavesta.
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. a distinctly separated series of ideas may be intentionally communicated. one of the keys to the once universal mystery language.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. even prior to the knowledge of the same by the descending Semites. he has laboured for many years in this direction. copies in imagination of things sensible.htm (7 von 9) [06. the vestiges of which. secondarily. and his efforts were certainly crowned with great success. or causing a real idea. though such a revolution has no substance. . it may mean the expression of ideas by any other instrumentality. the number 9 may be taken as a reality. . by pictures. other than those ideas expressed by the reading of the sound signs.theosociety. and variously. may be taken as giving rise to.. . A mystic and a Kabalist by nature. though it has no sensible existence. while also it could be set forth separately. as Book II. of geometrical shapes. independently. however. This idea-language may consist of symbols restricted to arbitrary terms and signs." "To clear up an ambiguity as to the term language: Primarily the word means the expression of ideas by human speech. . that by the use of the written characters. which will be the language first defined. so also a revolution of the moon. or ideographs and symbols. It appears almost proven that the same system of geometry. having a very limited range of conceptions. under a veil. the designed scope of which would be determinatively helped out by parables in the shape of narratives or parts of narratives. Nor would it be just to enter upon an esoteric reading of symbolism without giving due honour to one who has rendered it the greatest service in this century." "The peculiarity of this language was that it could be contained in another. . This old language is so composed in the Hebrew text. or it may be a reading of nature in some of her manifestations of a value
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[[Vol. 1. and of things which may be classed as real without being sensible. series of ideas. in stone work. . by discovering the chief key to ancient Hebrew symbology. the author of "The Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery and the Source of Measures" has our thanks. of Cincinnati.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. and probably the divine origin of linear measures. In his own words: -"The writer is quite certain that there was an ancient language which modernly and up to this time appears to have been lost. and measures were known and made use of on the continent of North America. abundantly exist. pictures. save through the help of special instruction. which treats of Anthropogenesis. letters and syllabic signs possessing at the same time the powers or meaning of numbers. which may be pictured. would be most difficult to understand without a preparatory acquaintance with the metaphysical symbols at least. and quite valueless. ratio. or in earth construction. numbers. . . as. Mr.
The explanation of the chief symbols and emblems is now attempted. for instance.05. Page]] 308 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. interwoven strongly with metrology. concealed and not to be perceived. The author discovered that this (integral ratio in numbers of diameter to circumference of a circle) geometrical ratio was the very ancient.http://www. . This secondary language sets forth.

an idea which contains nothing supernatural in it. radiating out in various and even opposing directions. .will not become in their turn the "divine" instructors of a new mankind generated by them on a new globe. but the acceptance or rejection of which depends upon the degree of conceit and arrogance in the mind of him to whom it is stated.htm
almost immeasurable.theosociety. a lapse or loss from an original perfect language and a perfect system of science -. 1. as regards human civilization.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01.
tive subject-matter. so much higher as to be divine in the sight of that infant humanity. a language and a system of science imparted to the early mankind by a more advanced mankind. the imagination of the Cosmos itself even in its details of construction might result. as we understand it. Who of them knows." in short.05. like the spokes of a wheel. all resulting ideas must spring from the original picture and be harmonically connected. or related. the language now called SYMBOLISM. --------------
http://www. Page]] 309 MYSTERY LANGUAGE. possessed.. Part 1. from other spheres. if the professors of modern knowledge would only confess that. A picture of something natural may give rise to ideas of co-ordina-
[[Vol. was not the language of the world and of universal use. by a select class or caste. called to life and activity by the disembodied "principles" of our Earth? (See Stanza VI.then materialistic unbelief would have fewer chances than it has.theosociety. it would seem that in the history of the human race there happened. and. once their Egos are rid of their gross bodies -. far back in the past..) All this may have been the experience of the PAST. however. Book I. though they know nothing of the future of the disembodied man -. but it has become a question with the writer whether at one time.shall we say perfect because they were of divine origin and importation?" "Divine origin" does not mean here a revelation from an anthropomorphic god on a mount amidst thunder and lightning. .yet this future may be pregnant with surprises and unexpected revelations to them. or can tell. By this I mean that the popular tongue or vernacular commenced even in its origin to be made use of as the vehicle of this peculiar mode of conveying ideas. as it became more and more moulded into its arcane forms. we cannot trace.at least the elect out of the multitudes passing on to other spheres -. then. but if it does. For. and producing natural realities in departments very foreign to the apparent tendency of the reading of the first or starting picture.2003 03:31:35]
. and these strange records lie embedded in the "Mystery language" of the prehistoric ages. . indeed. Thus with a pictured idea radical enough.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-01. however apparently incongruous. Of this the evidences are very strong. By a "mankind.http://www. what may happen when once the life cycle of this globe is run down and our mother earth herself falls into her last sleep? Who is bold enough to say that the divine Egos of our mankind -. it. Such a use of ordinary language is now obsolete. but. or such.htm (8 von 9) [06.or rather will accept nothing -. at any rate. from causes which at present. Notion may give rise to connected notion.

Blavatsky -. which has seven "dialects. however. The proof of this lies. the Indianists and Egyptologists especially. the Trinity. THE MYSTERY LANGUAGE AND ITS KEYS. The scheme of Valentinius.
§ II. to one of the seven mysteries of Nature. bk 2. This is because they will never remember that all the ancient records were written in a language which was universal and known to all nations alike in days of old. to this day. which are at the origin of most of the dogmas of the Christian Church. in the extreme difficulty which the Orientalists in general. Nature could thus be either read in its fulness. The many-sided facets of the mystery language have led to the adoption of widely varied dogmas and rites in the exotericism of the Church rituals. the Resurrection. each referring. ch 2
The Secret Doctrine by H. Each had its own symbolism. which becomes et for the Frenchman. and so on. the seven capital Sins and the seven Virtues. or viewed from one of its special aspects. having always been in
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[[Vol.suspected by the Mason Ragon -.Vol.. There have been several men of note who have tried to re-establish such a universal and philosophical tongue: Delgarme. again.so all the words of that mystery language signified the same thing to each man of whatever nationality. has sprung not only from a common source of abstract beliefs. from the earliest and oldest down to the latest. Like the Arabic figures which are plain to a man of whatever nation. Vol 1. experience in interpreting the allegorical writings of the Aryans and the hieratic records of old Egypt. und for the German. RECENT discoveries made by great mathematicians and Kabalists thus prove. but from one universal esoteric. The great archaic system known from prehistoric ages as the sacred Wisdom Science. in his Pasigraphie. Wilkins. These scholars hold the key to the universal language of old.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky.g. Page]] 310 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. 1. or "Mystery" language. but which is now intelligible only to the few. e. is the only one who has proven its possibility. yet which may be expressed for all civilized nations in the simple sign & -. Page]] 311 EGYPT'S MANY RELIGIONS. called the "Greek Kabala. and being specially appropriated. or like the English word and.05.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. one that is contained and can be traced in every old as well as in every new religion.2003 03:31:40]
. the seven Sacraments." so to speak. though only once. that every theology. and still has.
the keeping of the highest among the initiated Hierophants of antiquity.

is known to us only by a few copies of the eleventh and twelfth dynasties. or of that other which was in the minds and conceptions of the Theban sacerdotal class? For. Vol 1. through the treason of some early Church Fathers -. Yet they have preserved in their rituals and dogmas the
http://www. or of that of the learned men? Of that which was taught in the schools of Heliopolis. Chapter XVII. Leaving aside the invasion of the Shepherds. the number of readings had increased considerably. Gaston Maspero. or the primordial water. modified the ideas about the universe and the forces that ruled it.Rashoo. to the absence of worthy heirs to the knowledge. the great French Egyptologist and the successor of Mariette Bey. there is an interval of at least five thousand years. but including its ancient boundaries) is the only country in the world which still has among her sons adepts.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. the Ethiopian and Assyrian dominions. mostly.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. or of the Egyptian religion of the Ptolemaic period? Is it of the religion of the rabble. Time had. and especially the physiological functions. Egypt began to lose those keys one by one. that according to this or another school. it has worked. Page]] 312 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. "I am tempted to ask which of the Egyptian religions they are talking about? Is it of the Egyptian religion of the 4th Dynasty. who have the knowledge of all the seven sub-systems and the key to the entire system. The Egyptian priests have forgotten much. Greek colonization. who passed away before they had time to reveal all to their successors.
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few out of the seven which passed. They never had the higher keys. It is maintained that INDIA (not in its present limits. so different. indeed. moral and intellectual. but the last fragments of their knowledge have now fallen into the power of the Jesuits. the Persian conquest. Fifteen centuries later. bk 2. the esoteric never. of the Book of the Dead which seems to contain the exposition of the system of the world as it was understood at Heliopolis during the time of the first dynasties.05. He does not take into account the sacred immutability of the primitive truths. Egypt has passed during those five thousand years through many vicissitudes of life. how many times. The exoteric dogmas may often have been altered. The loss of a good deal of the primitive teaching was due to the sudden deaths of the great Hierophants. 1.
developed and transformed most of its dogmas. the Demiurge became the solar fire -. in its course. and the thousand revolutions of its political life. During the hardly 18 centuries that Christianity exists." writes M. and the last stones at Esneh under Caesar-Philippus. As for the Hebrews. who have turned them into a system of sorcery.into the hands of the new sect of the Nazarenes. "Every time I hear people talking of the religion of Egypt. and Chaldea had preserved only three in the days of Berosus. then.theosociety. Since the fall of Memphis.2003 03:31:40]
.ex-initiates of the Temples -. geometrical and numerical systems of symbolizing all the human. in all their writings they show no more than a thorough knowledge of the astronomical. revealed only during the mysteries of initiation. which bears the cartouche of a king of the third dynasty.htm (2 von 15) [06. might not the Egyptian clergy have altered its dogmas during those fifty centuries that separate Theodosius from the King Builders of the Pyramids?" Here we believe the eminent Egyptologist is going too far.

namely.561 to 20. the bird of resurrection in Eternity). for what can this mean? "The wayfarer who crosses millions of years.612. 113-355 (explained in his work). viz.* What was that system? It is the intimate conviction of the author of "The Source of Measures" that "the Mosaic Books were intended. 1.e. giving form to all Beings. (3) He is the Fire and Water. Thus.14 gods (twice seven) seven dark and seven light gods (the seven Spirits of the Presence of the Christians and the Seven dark Evil Spirits). All this is now shown to have been the source and origin of Christian dogmas. to set forth a geometrical and numerical system of exact science. That which the Jews had from Egypt. and Egypt.. and day the night -.
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. and he has annihilated the evil principles in Noun (chaos) the children of Rebellion.561 for diameter." The author of this very extraordinary work has found it out." says Mr. through Moses and other initiates. R. Greece. that this geometrical ratio was the very ancient (and probably) the divine origin of what have now become through exoteric handling and practical application the British linear measures. was confused and distorted enough in later days. the theology of which has developed the phallic element. in "The Source of Measures.theosociety. one begetting millions of years in succession. to the mysteries of astronomy as connected with those of generation and conception -.the key.with those ideas of ancient religions.05.. discovered by John Parker. 10). He also found out that there was a modified form of the ratio. This ratio is 6. it also served as a base for
http://www. viz. (5) He speaks of the Seven Luminous ones who follow their Lord. and 20. Skinner. Page]] 313 THE JEWS. the inch. who confers justice (Osiris in Amenti). is still more misinterpreted. Noun the primordial parent. the Bennoo (or phoenix. he says. in whom night follows the day. and he created the gods out of his limbs -. Vol 1. The Jewish system of sacred measures applied to religious symbols is the same. "The foundation of these measures was the Parker ratio. in the name of One. "the underlying unit of which. (2) He has found Shoo (solar force) on the staircase in the City of the Eight (the two cubes of good and Evil). 17). issued from Noun. bk 2. of New York. which should serve as an origin of measures. which is chaos or the Deep.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. by a mode of art speech." Piazzi Smyth believes likewise.612 for circumference. to restore them back.an allusion to the periodical cycles of cosmic resurrection and human re-incarnation. was likewise the base of one of the royal Egyptian cubits and of the Roman foot.. and the great green (primordial water or Chaos) the name of the other" (v.
so far as geometrical and numerical combinations go. or to 6. the other engulfing them. in the use of the integral ratio in numbers of diameter to circumference of a circle. This system and these measures are found by some scholars to be identical with those used in the construction of the great pyramid -. AND THEIR SYSTEM.

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astronomical calculations." he says. Proctor.. Petrie seems to deny them. Speaking of "the multitude of relations independent of the Pyramid. but with every other nation or race they came in contact with. have been more than mere coincidences. . the verbiage of the Hebrew text of the Bible. "are altogether more curious than any coincidence between the Pyramid and astronomical numbers: the former are as close and remarkable as they are real" (i.05. while. So does Mr. if the builders of the Pyramid had the astronomical knowledge displayed in its perfect orientation and in its other admitted astronomical features. .e. the construction of the Pyramids. at the close of the cycle
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. VedaVyasa and Manu. The Bible names the Tyrians as a kindred people. as the Bible shows them freely intermarrying not alone with the Canaanites. were found to be at the basis or foundation of this natural and Egyptian and Hebrew system of science.) and the ratios mentioned. . Just as.theosociety. and claims dominion over them. "To the present moment. numerical. The author discovered that a system of exact science. in spite of all controversies and researches. ."
[[Vol. Mr. 1. Staniland Wake justly observes in his work on "The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid" (London. those "coincidences" that would remain if even the pyramid had no existence). they became a hybrid people." But let us see what is said by the opponents of Prof. Vol 1. the 'bricklayers' mentioned by Vina-Svata.) To this Mr. II. . geometrical. and astronomical. was in part the burden of this language as contained in.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. . Dec. p. and it is on this "knowledge" that the programme of the MYSTERIES and of the series of Initiations was based: thence.' and now new measures have left the work to be done all over again" (Petrie's letter to the Academy. . The cycle of Initiation was a reproduction in miniature of that great series of Cosmic changes to which astronomers have given the name of tropical or sidereal year.htm (4 von 15) [06. these coincidences. Piazzi Smyth's measurements of the Pyramid. or a mixture of all these. founded on these ratios and to be found in use in the construction of the Great Egyptian Pyramid. Yet whatever they may have been. 1882): "They must. not long after Moses. or the Hyk-Sos of Josephus. . .

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. if the measurements of this allegorical temple.. namely. Thus. though we should take care that in our haste none of the wounded ones are buried alive. based the religious mysteries of the new nation which he created.868 years]. which were called biassed. That our author has undeniably discovered one and even two of the keys is fully demonstrated in the work just quoted. that he is supposed to have constructed in the wilderness. rather than mathematical. which he symbolised under the form and measurements of the tabernacle. Vol 1. F. so at the close of the cycle of Initiation the inner man has regained the pristine state of divine purity and knowledge from which he set out on his cycle of terrestrial incarnation. that -"The circle is the natural basis or beginning of all area. is not so sure. whether the measures of the great Pyramid taken and adopted as the correct ones by the Biblical "Pyramidalists" are beyond suspicion. if not more so. as just shown. and the square being made so in
http://www.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. We gather that nearly every one of Piazzi Smyth's measurements differs from the later and more carefully made measurements of Mr. ch 2
of the sidereal year [25. it is due to the fact that the former were derived from the latter through the Tabernacle of Moses. I had the pleasure of his company there for a couple of days. as Ragon has well demonstrated. A proof of this is the work called "The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Proposition III.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02.
Initiation.'" As regards the late J. On these data. 1. we have consulted some eminent mathematicians.'Well. and at our last meal together he said to me in a saddened tone -.05. Petrie. upon the same abstract formula derived from this sidereal cycle. who concludes the Introduction to his work with this sentence: "As to the results of the whole investigation. and his third proposition especially. By all means let the old theories have a decent burial. bk 2. Sir! I feel as if I had been to a funeral. and is logically inconclusive. Petrie. Page]] 315 PIAZZA SMYTH AND PETRIE DISAGREE.theosociety. and this is the substance of what they say: Parker's reasoning rests on sentimental." by Mr. the symbol of the cycle of
[[Vol. perhaps many theories will agree with an American who was a warm believer in Pyramid theories when he came to Gizeh. the later Jewish High Priests constructed the allegory of Solomon's Temple -a building which never had a real existence. considerations. Moses.htm (5 von 15) [06. and as much a solar myth as is the still later Hiram Abif. besides other works written quite recently to oppose the said calculations. For. coincide with those of the Great Pyramid. Parker's calculation in general. of the Masons. One has but to read it to feel a growing conviction that the hidden meaning of the allegories and parables of both Testaments is now unveiled. is as certain. who is simply. any more than had King Solomon himself. But that he owes this discovery far more to his own genius than to Parker and Piazzi Smyth. an Initiate into the Egyptian Mystagogy. the heavenly bodies return to the same relative positions as they occupied at its outset.

and because the circle is measured by.for what Parker calls the radius of the triangle is the radius of a circle inscribed in the triangle and therefore not the radius of the triangle at all. is a remarkable example of faulty reasoning. ch 2
mathematical science. and hence the fractional diameter of one circle. circumference and radius.. Granting. which is equal to the diameter of one square.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. At any rate they passed them to the early Christians. and especially in their chronology. or were not. Parker's Quadrature of the Circle is rejected by mathematicians. and not the square of diameter.. Here it is: --
[[Vol. and other computations.theosociety. Vol 1. that a triangle can be said to have a radius in the sense in which we speak of the radius of a circle. and cannot safely be relied upon in mathematical reasoning. Ralston Skinner's esoteric reading of the Bible become incorrect. or because Mr. the ark of Noah. is of little consequence. and it is the one on which Mr." Proposition IX. -. to Proposition VII. Page]] 316 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. Whether the Archaic esoteric system originated the British inch or not. their astronomical symbols. is in the opposite duplicate ratio to the diameter of an equilateral triangle whose area is one.is an illustration of an arbitrary proposition. 1.
"The circle and the equilateral triangle are opposite to one another in all the elements of their construction. merely because the measurements of the Pyramid will not be found to agree with those of Solomon's temple. is artificial and arbitrary --" -. it is the Occultists and Kabalists who are the "true" heirs to the KNOWLEDGE. etc. for they alone now understand its real meaning. Parker's Quadrature mainly rests. Skinner's reading depends first of all on the Kabalistic methods and the Rabbinical value of the Hebrew letters. whereas profane Jews and
http://www.and granting for the moment the other fanciful and mathematical propositions united in his premises.. etc. were. and equal to the circle. unless they took their sacred cubit and measurements from the Egyptians (Moses being an initiate of the Priests) must have got those notions from India. and would not be accepted by strict mathematicians. Hence. in the construction of their temples. by which all regular shapes are made equal to the square. however. the duration of the cycles.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. even more strongly. therefore. to the strict and true metaphysician." etc. and hence the basis of area.2003 03:31:40]
. which states that: "Because the circle is the primary shape in nature. the same as those used in the Biblical measurements and glyphs. But it is extremely important to ascertain whether the measures used in the evolution and building of the Aryan symbolic religion. and is equal to the square only in ratio of half its circumference by the radius. The same observation applies.htm (6 von 15) [06. Nor does Mr. the figures given in the Puranas. bk 2. or the secret wisdom which is still found in the Bible. why must we conclude that if the triangle and circle are opposite in all the elements of their construction. -. the diameter of any defined circle is in the opposite duplicate ratio of the diameter of any given equivalent triangle? What necessary connection is there between the premises and the conclusion? The reasoning is of a kind not known in geometry. are the only natural and legitimate elements of area. For Mr.05. for the sake of argument. For this will prove that the Jews.

theosociety." and was no better than a "corn bin. the proofs afforded by tradition are too constantly rejected for us to hope to settle the question in our present age. was the baptismal font. 1.htm (7 von 15) [06. to the profane.
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Christians cling to the husks and dead letter thereof. which Professor Piazzi Smyth. mathematics. from believing each in his way. bk 2. his theory was. England and America. and that Jehovah is a not very flattered copy of Osiris. we had said.* Its greatest scholars. 519.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. but we have yet to agree as to the nature and character of the divine "Revealer. externally it symbolized the creative principle of Nature. an English writer who had maintained that the Sarcophagus had been used for the celebration
http://www. recognizes that he has been anticipated in his statements. it was a majestic fane. astrology.05. and (b) on each scholar's individual preconception. and that (b) this universal language belongs to direct revelation! The latter hypothesis is correct only in the sense shown in the last paragraph of the preceding §.though he rarely. On p. I. The porphyry sarcophagus. Meanwhile. is now demonstrated by the author of the "Source of Measures. in the palmy days of Mr. Science. The data furnished by history are too meagre and unsatisfactory for either of them to prove to the sceptic which of them is right." Our statement was laughed at in those days. Internally. in whose sombre recesses were performed the mysteries. Page]] 317 TRUTH MUST PREVAIL AT LAST. On the other hand. and their adaptation to phallicism. as one Scientist after another is compelled to recognize the facts given out from the Secret Doctrine -. Vol 1.. This. materialistic science will be laughing impartially at both Kabalists and Occultists." But the latter and Mr. cannot prevent either the theistic Kabalist. and illustrated also the principles of geometry. Thus. that Herodotus when treating of that Pyramid "might have added that. But the said vexed question of priority once laid aside. That it is the system of measures which led to the invention of the God-names Elohim and Jehovah. will find itself finally taken to task. and be compelled to admit the common claim. will of course depend on (a) the internal and external evidence of the revelation. this.2003 03:31:40]
. upon emerging from which the neophyte was "born again" and became an adept. or the Pantheistic Occultist. neither of the two convincing the other.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. in its departments of philology and comparative religion. Piazzi Smyth both seem to labour under the impression that (a) the priority of the system belongs to the Israelites. Piazzi Smyth's authority on the Pyramid of Gizeh. that the porphyry sarcophagus of the King's Chamber "is the unit of measure for the two most enlightened nations of the earth.
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of the Mysteries of Osiris. Judaism having availed itself of two keys out of the seven. least of all of "coincidence. and these two keys having been now rediscovered. Every old religion is but a chapter or two of the entire volume of archaic primeval mysteries -. that which I cannot explain. as it will that of all the other exoteric faiths.
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.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. Comparisons will be instituted. I give out. Page]] 318 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. on the authority of the celestial bodies and their mysteries. And now. 1. by showing the dogmas in their real. What I know. the chamber of perfections of Cheops' tomb. Nor does any other Scripture at present possess it in its entirety. this is what Mr. such views of nature and man.mathematically. however incomplete. it does not. Divested of their modern repulsive crudeness. Vol 1. as anyone acquainted with arithmetic reads and verifies an addition or total. The element of Phallicism. will endeavour to learn the symbolical universal language with its numerical and geometrical keys. which gradually prepared him for the [[Footnote continued on next page]]
[[Vol. even that which has been hitherto discovered in the Bible by some scholars is quite sufficient to demonstrate the claim -. 93 of his paper.Eastern Occultism alone being able to boast that it is in possession of the full secret. naked meaning. it becomes no longer a matter of individual speculation and hypothesis.if not.the rest is left to the student's personal intuition. Staniland Wake writes on p. But while supposing that the whole cycle of the universal mystery language will not be mastered for whole centuries to come.05. For in saying that Eastern Occultism has the secret. it is not as if a "complete" or even an approximate knowledge was claimed by the writer. with its lowly termination." "The so-called King's Chamber. grand proportions.
"farrago of absurd fiction and superstitions.* A few years longer and this system will kill the dead letter of the Bible. fine materials.htm (8 von 15) [06." as the Brahminical literature is generally termed. which would be absurd. 'The polished walls. eloquently tell of glories yet to come -. But here again they will hardly be successful if they share the belief that the Jewish Kabalistic system contains the key to the whole mystery: for. for even the Vedas are not complete. and as much as possible will be explained in this work -. six or seven years later. was probably the place to which the initiant was admitted after he had passed through the narrow upward passage and the grand gallery. (we had never heard of that writer!).theosociety. on "The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid. Ethnology and especially that of Chronology. besides changing entirely the modern scientific systems of Anthropology. of which an enthusiastic pyramidist says.

Perchance.* who lived far earlier than Moses. Page]] 319 MOSES COPIED FROM SARGON. 13 et seq. published in my translation in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. 442-3. x. or by.one of the smallest branchlets from the commingling of the 4th and 5th sub-races (the Mongolo-Turanian and the Indo-European. vol. Moses.
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. were the first phenomenal manifestations in their own sight of the separation of sexes and the ensuing mystery of creating in their turn -. the king of Akkad am I. If later races have degraded them. what is the logical inference? Most assuredly that which gives us the right to say that the story told of Moses by Ezra had been learned by him while at Babylon.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02.such symbols were but natural. * All we have said in Isis is now found corroborated in the "Egyptian Mystery." Had Mr. the Nile (the Great Deep and Water). and that it is this gate in the Initiation temple. It has been found anticipated in the Babylonian fragments on the tiles. II. my father I did not know. in the Mosaic beginnings.htm (9 von 15) [06. p.Zipporah (Exodus ii. "Akkad lay near the City of Sippara on the Euphrates and North of Babylon.) Another strange coincidence is found in the fact that the name of the neighbouring above-mentioned City of Sippara is the same as the name of the wife of Moses -. Staniland Wake been a Theosophist. p. who remodelled the whole Pentateuch. Of course the story is a clever addition by Ezra. the Babylonian Moses. issuing to their personal knowledge from an androgyne ancestry.
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will unveil the evolutions of the human mind and show how natural was such a course of thought." or the new spiritual re-birth alluded to by Jesus in Matthew vii. the powerful king. that symbology was not as crude as it became later under the handling of Ezra. This curious story is found on fragments of tablets from Kouyunjik. a brother of my father ruled over the country. who could not be ignorant of it. 2. he might have added that the narrow upward passage leading to the King's chamber had a "narrow gate" indeed." The capital of Sargon. As they originated with the archaic races. . Sargona. . especially the "chosen people. after the sinking of the great Continent) -. in the story of King Sargon. was thinking of. 10) . has not been primarily composed for.could only accept its symbology in the spirit which was given to it by the nations from which it was derived. . and the baby-boy found floating therein in the ark of rushes. or The Source of Measures. I. For the glyph of Pharaoh's daughter (the woman).
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3. notwithstanding the exoteric element. and have been used for ages and aeons by the archaic nations. and daubed it with slime and with pitch. etc.theosociety. and a hexagon. 8. Page]] 320 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. the water-carrier. G.astronomy and theology being closely connected -. the princess. then why should not other symbols and glyphs far more crude in their phallic element have been added by this adept in the later Chaldean and Sabaean phallic worship? We are taught that the primeval faith of the Israelites was quite different from that which was developed centuries later by the Talmudists. a cube. as now found in the two Testaments. The earliest forms of elementary geometry must have certainly been suggested by the observation of the heavenly bodies and their groupings. is quite sufficient to class the Bible among esoteric works.. 1. and put the child therein.htm (10 von 15) [06.the last term having now passed even into our modern botany to distinguish male and female plants (the unisexual. polygamous. My mother. to Akki the water-carrier it brought me. dioecious.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. Akki. a point. and plane figures with various sides and angles.is found in Indian exoteric. And if so.. conceived me. As we know that the fame of Sargon reached Egypt. a plane. a triangle. "is supposed to have happened about 1600 B. Starting from this. She placed me in an ark of rushes.* Hence one finds numbers and figures used as an
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[[Vol. 4. she took for him an ark of bulrushes. that Exodus was never written by Moses. and in one sense have the same meaning as the Hebrew numerals. with bitumen my exit she sealed up. their aspects and nodes -.
and that he applied the allegory told of Sargon to the Jewish lawgiver. the first principles of a numerical and geometrical symbol language.05. 6. The whole cycle of biblical glyphs and numbers as suggested by astronomical observations -. These figures and their symbols. etc.C. monoecious.are known in astronomy as sextiles.) -. And now Exodus (ii): "And when she (Moses' mother) could not longer hide him. and to connect its secret system with Indian. etc. and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. Chaldean. and before them by David and Hezekiah. as well as esoteric. She launched me in the river. a pentacle. even without the help of its divine instructors. which did not drown me. This shows the knowledge and use of geometrical symbology to be as old as the world. which is by the side of the River Euphrates. lifted me. bk 2. rather earlier than the supposed age of Moses. the signs of the Zodiac. All this. quartiles and so on. Vol 1. it is quite likely that this account had a connection with the event related in
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Exodus ii.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. 436-42. everywhere whither the foot of ancient man has ever journeyed. is stamped for ever in the Southern Cross in the Heavens. 1. 6. which he calls rightly the "primordial vestiges of these symbols. and hence the phallic form. numbers 3 and 4 counted on the cross. as in the Egyptian Crux-Ansata." But now. and 6 + 1 = 7.. in the Catacombs of Ozimandyas. and 10. involving and expressing the mysteries of the entire Kosmos. As well expressed. . They are ever the same. days in the circle of the week. Sargon must have preceded Moses by 2."
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. . a triangle.* This kind of measure was made to co-ordinate with the idea of the origin of human life. One recognizes them in the caves and rock-cut temples of Hindostan and Central Asia. with only certain variations growing out of the first figures. showing the first aspect of the evolving deity. are the very corner-stone of Occult Cosmogonies.05.000 years at the least. when once performed. II. A circle attached to the first. or the male and female universal glyph.) The confession is suggestive. Thus the evolution and correlation of the mysteries of Kosmos. * As a reminder how the Esoteric religion of Moses was crushed several times. . by Hezekiah for one. as those of 5. when Professor Sayce has had the courage to push back the dates of the Chaldean and Assyrian Kings by two thousand years more. the sum of all. 9. bk 2.. gives the ansated cross. Surely there must have been some very [[Footnote continued on next page]]
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expression and a record of thought in every archaic symbolical Scripture. for every action. . a point. Vol 1. showing a form of the (Hebrew) golden candlestick (in the Holy of Holies). abstract and concrete -were first recorded in geometrical changes of shape. then. recorded a hundred times more fully in the Hindu system. vol. or of the Christian cross form. who furnished almost all the high Priests of Judea. . in the ruins of Palenque. up to number 9.**" The Stanzas show the cross and these numbers playing a prominent part in archaic cosmogony. The 3 and the 4. the triangle and the cube. "The Cube unfolded is in display a cross of the tau. of its growth and development -. . so it is the time marker of birth. Meanwhile we may profit by the evidence collected by the same author to show the identity of symbols and their esoteric meaning all over the globe. but the figures lack a cypher or two. held to the Laws of Moses and spurned the alleged "Books of Moses. in the mounds of the Caucasian snowcapped fastnesses. as in the pyramids and lithoi of Egypt and America.theosociety. for him who can understand its mystic language. Page]] 321 THE CROSS. A PHALLIC SYMBOL. when it was synthesized by the first line and a circle -. . put in its place. read pp. and a cube.the Pythagorean mystic Decade. as 7 lights of the sun.

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Pentateuch of the Synagogue and the Talmud. the significance of the "sacred sign.a cycle exceedingly modern when the age of the human race is contemplated? It seems.* by a series of drawings. "The Easter Isles in 'mid Pacific' present the feature of the remaining peaks of the mountains of a submerged continent. In that vale the earthen mounds of the far north become the elegant stone pyramidal and other structures whose remains are now found. for the reason that these peaks are thickly studded with Cyclopean statues. . As to one of the most perfect of the pyramidal structures among the Aztecs. by which from the form of a man that of a cross springs. is convinced that they had a knowledge of astronomy. to have been farther removed in the past from the old Egyptians than are the old Egyptians from us.05. is to be found a description of some very ancient and curious carving on the crest walls of the mountains of South America. than the races now living. as to the date of its possession by man. in fact." the Swastica. whence. . etc. bk 2. who must have of necessity occupied a widely extended area.' published at Salem. Vol 1. "It is known that tradition among the Aztecs has handed down a very perfect account of the deluge. it is averred. ** "Source of Measures. etc. The strangeness of these tracings is in that they exhibit the outlines of a man stretched out on a cross. . Massachusetts. Plato's Decussated man in Space. remnants of the civilization of a dense and cultivated people.
"Under the general view taken of the nature of the number forms. Attwater.htm (12 von 15) [06. as high up at least as the 42nd parallel north. . * Once more. Page]] 322 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. remember the Hindu Wittoba crucified in space. . "In the 'Naturalist.. also with copies of the images. the original country of the Aztecs. On the back of these images is to be found the 'ansated cross' and the same modified to the outlines of the human form.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. they at last arrived in the vale of Mexico. from examination of hundreds of them. . .2003 03:31:40]
. in one of the early numbers. Has it been a matter of revelation in what we know as the historic age -. thus exhibiting a symbolic display of the interdependency of the forms set forth. Baron Humboldt says that we are to look for the country of Aztalan. older by far. A full description. with the thickly planted statues. journeying. .org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. is to be found in the January number 1870 of the London Builder. but so done that the cross may be taken as the man. 1. it becomes a matter of research of the utmost interest as to when and where their existence and their use first became known. Humboldt gives a description to the following effect: "The form of this pyramid (of Papantla) which has seven stories. The correspondences between the Aztec remains and those of the Egyptians are well known. . with plate showing the land."
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org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. The number of these niches seems to allude to the 318 simple and compound signs of the days of their civil calendar. Vol 1. it is remarkable on one account: it is built entirely of hewn stones. and biassed as the scientific theories may be." Identical glyphs. Three staircases lead to the top. its base but 25 feet on each side." remarks the author. and Central Asia. Easter Island.hold to the 6. When it is consi[[Footnote(s)]] -------------------------------------------------
* See farther on the description given of the early Aryan initiation: of Visvakarma crucifying the Sun. theology clinging to its 6. as expressive of a diameter value to a circumference of unity.004 years B. its use in the composition of the civil calendar becomes manifest.!! Shall one.05. But let us see whether Science in its materialistic speculations.in order to avoid the usual penalty that awaits every one who strays outside the beaten paths of either Theology or Materialism -. or to cut adrift from it. and even a liar. being but 57 feet. materialistic.theosociety. numbers and esoteric symbols are found in Egypt. and very beautifully shaped. Mexico. anthropology teaching our descent from the ape. "Vikkartana. bk 2. but its height is not remarkable. stating what the Secret Doctrine teaches us.000 years since Adam with Sir Charles Lyell's "Geological
http://www. when all the SEVEN KEYS shall be delivered unto Science. Peru. of an extraordinary size.000 years and "special creation. shall we -. and symbols of the evolution of races from gods.as good as any -. The latter are in their death agony for every one but the most uncompromising bigot and fanatic.000 years of Creation.2003 03:31:40]
. 1." "318 is the Gnostic value of Christ.on a cruciform lath." shorn of his beams -. Page]] 323 IDENTITY OF THE ANCIENT SYMBOLS. "and the famous number of the trained or circumcised servants of Abraham.
[[Vol. and universal. and even theology in its death-rattle and supreme struggle to reconcile the 6. for fear of incurring the penalty of being called a superstitious fool.C. being fully prepared to bear the consequences. the steps of which are decorated with hieroglyphical sculptures and small niches arranged with great symmetry. and withstand it fearlessly to its face. has not yet dawned? In the face of the crushing discoveries of Geology and Anthropology with regard to the antiquity of man.* Hence we have no choice but either to blindly accept the deductions of Science. abstain from furnishing proofs -. India. Faulty.htm (13 von 15) [06.The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky.only because that day. as long as it is known that the secret records hold the said SEVEN keys to the mystery of the genesis of man." or accept in submissive admiration our genealogy and descent from the ape? Not so. and the Clergy tracing it from Adam 4. Chaldea. Crucified men. or rather the men of learning and research in the symbological department.
dered that 318 is an abstract value. they are a thousand times nearer the truth than the vagaries of theology. and yet behold Science repudiating the idea of a human race other than one made in our image. ch 2
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in the face of the dead-letter absurdities of the Bible." do not themselves give us unconsciously a helping hand. a red
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* Some of its defenders must have lost their reason."* Were they Hindus enumerating the rebirths of Vamadeva from the Linga Purana. . or denying the conclusions of geologists" -.htm (14 von 15) [06. How so? In the simplest way imaginable. 55). Huxley. . .finds a compromise. Tyndall. Angels and men (being) one species.theosociety. 194).05." This strange coincidence. the latter show him in one Kalpa of a white complexion. . remarking that "it would be unfortunate if the defenders of the Bible should be driven into the position of either surrendering the inspiration of Scripture. For what can one think when. so far as Scripture is concerned." p.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. finds it already impossible to account for the varieties in the human race.("Primeval Man. They speak of "a white Adam and a black Adam. they have never stumbled upon any statement which will not abide the light of ADVANCING SCIENCE"!!! -. For. henceforth "we" (the clergy) "are enabled to leave scientific men to pursue their studies without attempting to coerce them by the fear of heresy" . ." we read. then.in the theological ranks this time. as Siva-Kumara represents only allegorically the human races during the genesis of man. and tempted Adam and Eve. . . Vol 1.
[[Vol. (this must be a relief indeed to Messrs. . "instead of shaking our confidence in Scripture. "The Bible narrative does not commence with creation. but twenty different races upon the earth before the time of Adam. Having died in consequence of his rebellion. he devotes a thick volume to proving this fact: "Adam was not the first man** created upon this earth. is yet unwritten.
Adam and a yellow Adam." Satan was "the first Prince of this world. but with the formation of Adam and Eve. . millions of years after our planet had been created. or what were those races. they could say little more. bk 2. . supply additional proof of its veracity" (p. Ethnology. Nay. ch 2
Evidences of the Antiquity of Man. for the author argues that. Who. as Mr. just as there may be twenty different races of men on other worlds" (p. Lyell). Page]] 324 THE SECRET DOCTRINE. he remained on earth as a disembodied Spirit. in another of a black colour. these are still supported. enumerating the repeated births of Siva. on the confession of some of its very learned votaries. and more especially during the life-time of Satan (!!!) may have been a period
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http://www. "There may have been not one. since the author still maintains that Adam is the first man of our race? It was THE SATANIC RACE AND RACES! "Satan (was) never in heaven. and Sir C. one would rather say. The exhumed relics of pre-Adamic man." .The Secret Doctrine by H P Blavatsky. and one finds its theologians maintaining that though "the Scriptures carefully refrain (?) from making any direct contribution to scientific knowledge. . . 1. The unknown author of "Primeval Man" in a desperate effort to screen the divine Revelation from the merciless and eloquent discoveries of geology and anthropology. . publicly and as fiercely as ever. . as is commonly supposed. Proctor would say. speak only in favour of scientific intuition. unless the hypothesis of the creation of several Adams be accepted. Its previous history. after which the Kumara becomes "four youths of a yellow colour. in still another of a red colour. "The earlier ages of the Satanic race." . But it led to another intuitional phenomenon -. 14).2003 03:31:40]
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will surely be rejected by Science just as much as the Satanic and pre-Adamic races.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-2-02. (when) there are inevitable incidents which must have occurred. . These pictures -. the primeval offspring innocently gambolling by his side. 16 and 17. as of the seven Kalpas. 206-207). 1. . which the author has never dared to sign with his own.2003 03:31:40]
. that then grew where now no oaks will grow . Lyell's "Antiquity of Man" and other damaging scientific works. . we feel certain that. . Though the genesis of man. the grey primeval patriarch . .htm (15 von 15) [06. v. For. . his preAdamic races -. . The modern Christian bride -. of the seven great Root Races.
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